如何将包含DICT列表的pandas列拆分为每个键的单独列

Question

我正在分析来自Facebook的政治广告，这是由ProPublica发布的

这就是我的意思。 我有一整列的目标，我想分析，但它的格式在一个非常难以接近的方式为我的技能水平的人

这仅来自1个单元： [{"target": "NAge", "segment": "21 and older"}, {"target": "MinAge", "segment": "21"}, {"target": "Retargeting", "segment": "people who may be similar to their customers"}, {"target": "Region", "segment": "the United States"}]

还有一个： [{"target": "NAge", "segment": "18 and older"}, {"target": "Location Type", "segment": "HOME"}, {"target": "Interest", "segment": "Hispanic culture"}, {"target": "Interest", "segment": "Republican Party (United States)"}, {"target": "Location Granularity", "segment": "country"}, {"target": "Country", "segment": "the United States"}, {"target": "MinAge", "segment": 18}]

我需要做的是分离每个“目标”项，使其成为列标签，并使每个对应的“段”成为该列中的一个可能值

或者，解决方案是创建一个函数来调用每行中的每个字典键来计算频率

Answer 1

• 列是lists的dicts。
  • 可以使用pandas.explode()将list中的每个dict移动到单独的列中
  • 通过使用pandas.json_normalize()，.join()将dicts的列转换为数据帧，其中键是列标题，值是观察值，然后使用pandas.json_normalize()，.join()返回到df
• 使用.drop()删除不需要的列
• 如果列包含作为字符串的dict列表（例如"[{key: value}]"），请参考Splitting dictionary/list inside a Pandas Column into Separate Columns中的solution，并使用：
  • df.col2 = df.col2.apply(literal_eval)，带from ast import literal_eval

import pandas as pd

# create sample dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame({'col1': ['x', 'y'], 'col2': [[{"target": "NAge", "segment": "21 and older"}, {"target": "MinAge", "segment": "21"}, {"target": "Retargeting", "segment": "people who may be similar to their customers"}, {"target": "Region", "segment": "the United States"}], [{"target": "NAge", "segment": "18 and older"}, {"target": "Location Type", "segment": "HOME"}, {"target": "Interest", "segment": "Hispanic culture"}, {"target": "Interest", "segment": "Republican Party (United States)"}, {"target": "Location Granularity", "segment": "country"}, {"target": "Country", "segment": "the United States"}, {"target": "MinAge", "segment": 18}]]})

# display(df)
  col1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 col2
0    x                                                                                                                                                   [{'target': 'NAge', 'segment': '21 and older'}, {'target': 'MinAge', 'segment': '21'}, {'target': 'Retargeting', 'segment': 'people who may be similar to their customers'}, {'target': 'Region', 'segment': 'the United States'}]
1    y  [{'target': 'NAge', 'segment': '18 and older'}, {'target': 'Location Type', 'segment': 'HOME'}, {'target': 'Interest', 'segment': 'Hispanic culture'}, {'target': 'Interest', 'segment': 'Republican Party (United States)'}, {'target': 'Location Granularity', 'segment': 'country'}, {'target': 'Country', 'segment': 'the United States'}, {'target': 'MinAge', 'segment': 18}]

# use explode to give each dict in a list a separate row
df = df.explode('col2').reset_index(drop=True)

# normalize the column of dicts, join back to the remaining dataframe columns, and drop the unneeded column
df = df.join(pd.json_normalize(df.col2)).drop(columns=['col2'])

display(df)

   col1                target                                       segment
0     x                  NAge                                  21 and older
1     x                MinAge                                            21
2     x           Retargeting  people who may be similar to their customers
3     x                Region                             the United States
4     y                  NAge                                  18 and older
5     y         Location Type                                          HOME
6     y              Interest                              Hispanic culture
7     y              Interest              Republican Party (United States)
8     y  Location Granularity                                       country
9     y               Country                             the United States
10    y                MinAge                                            18

获取count

• 如果目标是为每个'target'和关联的'segment'获取count

counts = df.groupby(['target', 'segment']).count()

更新

• 此更新针对完整文件实施

import pandas as pd
from ast import literal_eval

# load the file
df = pd.read_csv('en-US.csv')

# replace NaNs with '[]', otherwise literal_eval will error
df.targets = df.targets.fillna('[]')

# replace null with None, otherwise literal_eval will error
df.targets = df.targets.str.replace('null', 'None')

# convert the strings to lists of dicts
df.targets = df.targets.apply(literal_eval)

# use explode to give each dict in a list a separate row
df = df.explode('targets').reset_index(drop=True)

# fillna with {} is required for json_normalize
df.targets = df.targets.fillna({i: {} for i in df.index})

# normalize the column of dicts, join back to the remaining dataframe columns, and drop the unneeded column
normalized = pd.json_normalize(df.targets)

# get the counts
counts = normalized.groupby(['target', 'segment']).segment.count().reset_index(name='counts')