Reshape wide to long in pandas
Update
As George Liu has shown in another answer, pd.melt
is the idiomatic, flexible and fast solution to this problem. Do not use unstack
for this.
unstack
returns a series with a multiindex:
In [38]: df.unstack()
Out[38]:
date
AA 05/03 1
06/03 4
07/03 7
08/03 5
BB 05/03 2
06/03 5
07/03 8
08/03 7
CC 05/03 3
06/03 6
07/03 9
08/03 1
dtype: int64
You can call reset_index on the returning series:
In [39]: df.unstack().reset_index()
Out[39]:
level_0 date 0
0 AA 05-03 1
1 AA 06-03 4
2 AA 07-03 7
3 AA 08-03 5
4 BB 05-03 2
5 BB 06-03 5
6 BB 07-03 8
7 BB 08-03 7
8 CC 05-03 3
9 CC 06-03 6
10 CC 07-03 9
11 CC 08-03 1
Or construct a dataframe with a multiindex:
In [40]: pd.DataFrame(df.unstack())
Out[40]:
0
date
AA 05-03 1
06-03 4
07-03 7
08-03 5
BB 05-03 2
06-03 5
07-03 8
08-03 7
CC 05-03 3
06-03 6
07-03 9
08-03 1
Use pandas.melt to transform from wide to long:
df = pd.DataFrame({
'date' : ['05/03', '06/03', '07/03', '08/03'],
'AA' : [1, 4, 7, 5],
'BB' : [2, 5, 8, 7],
'CC' : [3, 6, 9, 1]
}).set_index('date')
df
AA BB CC
date
05/03 1 2 3
06/03 4 5 6
07/03 7 8 9
08/03 5 7 1
To convert, we just need to reset the index and then melt:
df = df.reset_index()
pd.melt(df, id_vars='date', value_vars=['AA', 'BB', 'CC'])
this is the final result:
date variable value
0 05/03 AA 1
1 06/03 AA 4
2 07/03 AA 7
3 08/03 AA 5
4 05/03 BB 2
5 06/03 BB 5
6 07/03 BB 8
7 08/03 BB 7
8 05/03 CC 3
9 06/03 CC 6
10 07/03 CC 9
11 08/03 CC 1