Question

I’ve got some radar data that’s in a bit of an odd format, and I can’t figure out how to correctly pivot it using the pandas library.

My data:

    speed   time
loc     
A    63  0000
B    61  0000
C    63  0000
D    65  0000
A    73  0005
B    71  0005
C    73  0005
D    75  0005

I’d like to turn that into a DataFrame that looks like this:

    0000    0005
loc     
A    63     73
B    61     71
C    63     73
D    65     75

I’ve done a lot of fiddling around but can’t seem to get the syntax correct. Can anyone please help?

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use the pivot method here:

In [71]: df
Out[71]: 
     speed  time
loc             
A       63     0
B       61     0
C       63     0
D       65     0
A       73     5
B       71     5
C       73     5
D       75     5

In [72]: df.reset_index().pivot('loc', 'time', 'speed')
Out[72]: 
time   0   5
loc         
A     63  73
B     61  71
C     63  73
D     65  75