Apply multiple functions to multiple groupby columns
The second half of the currently accepted answer is outdated and has two deprecations. First and most important, you can no longer pass a dictionary of dictionaries to the agg groupby method. Second, never use .ix.
If you desire to work with two separate columns at the same time I would suggest using the apply method which implicitly passes a DataFrame to the applied function. Let's use a similar dataframe as the one from above
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(4,4), columns=list('abcd'))
df['group'] = [0, 0, 1, 1]
df
a b c d group
0 0.418500 0.030955 0.874869 0.145641 0
1 0.446069 0.901153 0.095052 0.487040 0
2 0.843026 0.936169 0.926090 0.041722 1
3 0.635846 0.439175 0.828787 0.714123 1
A dictionary mapped from column names to aggregation functions is still a perfectly good way to perform an aggregation.
df.groupby('group').agg({'a':['sum', 'max'],
'b':'mean',
'c':'sum',
'd': lambda x: x.max() - x.min()})
a b c d
sum max mean sum <lambda>
group
0 0.864569 0.446069 0.466054 0.969921 0.341399
1 1.478872 0.843026 0.687672 1.754877 0.672401
If you don't like that ugly lambda column name, you can use a normal function and supply a custom name to the special __name__ attribute like this:
def max_min(x):
return x.max() - x.min()
max_min.__name__ = 'Max minus Min'
df.groupby('group').agg({'a':['sum', 'max'],
'b':'mean',
'c':'sum',
'd': max_min})
a b c d
sum max mean sum Max minus Min
group
0 0.864569 0.446069 0.466054 0.969921 0.341399
1 1.478872 0.843026 0.687672 1.754877 0.672401
Using apply and returning a Series
Now, if you had multiple columns that needed to interact together then you cannot use agg, which implicitly passes a Series to the aggregating function. When using apply the entire group as a DataFrame gets passed into the function.
I recommend making a single custom function that returns a Series of all the aggregations. Use the Series index as labels for the new columns:
def f(x):
d = {}
d['a_sum'] = x['a'].sum()
d['a_max'] = x['a'].max()
d['b_mean'] = x['b'].mean()
d['c_d_prodsum'] = (x['c'] * x['d']).sum()
return pd.Series(d, index=['a_sum', 'a_max', 'b_mean', 'c_d_prodsum'])
df.groupby('group').apply(f)
a_sum a_max b_mean c_d_prodsum
group
0 0.864569 0.446069 0.466054 0.173711
1 1.478872 0.843026 0.687672 0.630494
If you are in love with MultiIndexes, you can still return a Series with one like this:
def f_mi(x):
d = []
d.append(x['a'].sum())
d.append(x['a'].max())
d.append(x['b'].mean())
d.append((x['c'] * x['d']).sum())
return pd.Series(d, index=[['a', 'a', 'b', 'c_d'],
['sum', 'max', 'mean', 'prodsum']])
df.groupby('group').apply(f_mi)
a b c_d
sum max mean prodsum
group
0 0.864569 0.446069 0.466054 0.173711
1 1.478872 0.843026 0.687672 0.630494
For the first part you can pass a dict of column names for keys and a list of functions for the values:
In [28]: df
Out[28]:
A B C D E GRP
0 0.395670 0.219560 0.600644 0.613445 0.242893 0
1 0.323911 0.464584 0.107215 0.204072 0.927325 0
2 0.321358 0.076037 0.166946 0.439661 0.914612 1
3 0.133466 0.447946 0.014815 0.130781 0.268290 1
In [26]: f = {'A':['sum','mean'], 'B':['prod']}
In [27]: df.groupby('GRP').agg(f)
Out[27]:
A B
sum mean prod
GRP
0 0.719580 0.359790 0.102004
1 0.454824 0.227412 0.034060
UPDATE 1:
Because the aggregate function works on Series, references to the other column names are lost. To get around this, you can reference the full dataframe and index it using the group indices within the lambda function.
Here's a hacky workaround:
In [67]: f = {'A':['sum','mean'], 'B':['prod'], 'D': lambda g: df.loc[g.index].E.sum()}
In [69]: df.groupby('GRP').agg(f)
Out[69]:
A B D
sum mean prod <lambda>
GRP
0 0.719580 0.359790 0.102004 1.170219
1 0.454824 0.227412 0.034060 1.182901
Here, the resultant 'D' column is made up of the summed 'E' values.
UPDATE 2:
Here's a method that I think will do everything you ask. First make a custom lambda function. Below, g references the group. When aggregating, g will be a Series. Passing g.index to df.ix[] selects the current group from df. I then test if column C is less than 0.5. The returned boolean series is passed to g[] which selects only those rows meeting the criteria.
In [95]: cust = lambda g: g[df.loc[g.index]['C'] < 0.5].sum()
In [96]: f = {'A':['sum','mean'], 'B':['prod'], 'D': {'my name': cust}}
In [97]: df.groupby('GRP').agg(f)
Out[97]:
A B D
sum mean prod my name
GRP
0 0.719580 0.359790 0.102004 0.204072
1 0.454824 0.227412 0.034060 0.570441
As an alternative (mostly on aesthetics) to Ted Petrou's answer, I found I preferred a slightly more compact listing. Please don't consider accepting it, it's just a much-more-detailed comment on Ted's answer, plus code/data. Python/pandas is not my first/best, but I found this to read well:
df.groupby('group') \
.apply(lambda x: pd.Series({
'a_sum' : x['a'].sum(),
'a_max' : x['a'].max(),
'b_mean' : x['b'].mean(),
'c_d_prodsum' : (x['c'] * x['d']).sum()
})
)
a_sum a_max b_mean c_d_prodsum
group
0 0.530559 0.374540 0.553354 0.488525
1 1.433558 0.832443 0.460206 0.053313
I find it more reminiscent of dplyr pipes and data.table chained commands. Not to say they're better, just more familiar to me. (I certainly recognize the power and, for many, the preference of using more formalized def functions for these types of operations. This is just an alternative, not necessarily better.)
I generated data in the same manner as Ted, I'll add a seed for reproducibility.
import numpy as np
np.random.seed(42)
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(4,4), columns=list('abcd'))
df['group'] = [0, 0, 1, 1]
df
a b c d group
0 0.374540 0.950714 0.731994 0.598658 0
1 0.156019 0.155995 0.058084 0.866176 0
2 0.601115 0.708073 0.020584 0.969910 1
3 0.832443 0.212339 0.181825 0.183405 1
Pandas >= 0.25.0, named aggregations
Since pandas version 0.25.0 or higher, we are moving away from the dictionary based aggregation and renaming, and moving towards named aggregations which accepts a tuple. Now we can simultaneously aggregate + rename to a more informative column name:
Example:
df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.rand(4,4), columns=list('abcd'))
df['group'] = [0, 0, 1, 1]
a b c d group
0 0.521279 0.914988 0.054057 0.125668 0
1 0.426058 0.828890 0.784093 0.446211 0
2 0.363136 0.843751 0.184967 0.467351 1
3 0.241012 0.470053 0.358018 0.525032 1
Apply GroupBy.agg with named aggregation:
df.groupby('group').agg(
a_sum=('a', 'sum'),
a_mean=('a', 'mean'),
b_mean=('b', 'mean'),
c_sum=('c', 'sum'),
d_range=('d', lambda x: x.max() - x.min())
)
a_sum a_mean b_mean c_sum d_range
group
0 0.947337 0.473668 0.871939 0.838150 0.320543
1 0.604149 0.302074 0.656902 0.542985 0.057681