Missing data, insert rows in Pandas and fill with NAN
I'm new to Python and Pandas so there might be a simple solution which I don't see.
I have a number of discontinuous datasets which look like this:
ind A B C
0 0.0 1 3
1 0.5 4 2
2 1.0 6 1
3 3.5 2 0
4 4.0 4 5
5 4.5 3 3
I now look for a solution to get the following:
ind A B C
0 0.0 1 3
1 0.5 4 2
2 1.0 6 1
3 1.5 NAN NAN
4 2.0 NAN NAN
5 2.5 NAN NAN
6 3.0 NAN NAN
7 3.5 2 0
8 4.0 4 5
9 4.5 3 3
The problem is,that the gap in A varies from dataset to dataset in position and length...
set_index
and reset_index
are your friends.
df = DataFrame({"A":[0,0.5,1.0,3.5,4.0,4.5], "B":[1,4,6,2,4,3], "C":[3,2,1,0,5,3]})
First move column A to the index:
In [64]: df.set_index("A")
Out[64]:
B C
A
0.0 1 3
0.5 4 2
1.0 6 1
3.5 2 0
4.0 4 5
4.5 3 3
Then reindex with a new index, here the missing data is filled in with nans. We use the Index
object since we can name it; this will be used in the next step.
In [66]: new_index = Index(arange(0,5,0.5), name="A")
In [67]: df.set_index("A").reindex(new_index)
Out[67]:
B C
0.0 1 3
0.5 4 2
1.0 6 1
1.5 NaN NaN
2.0 NaN NaN
2.5 NaN NaN
3.0 NaN NaN
3.5 2 0
4.0 4 5
4.5 3 3
Finally move the index back to the columns with reset_index
. Since we named the index, it all works magically:
In [69]: df.set_index("A").reindex(new_index).reset_index()
Out[69]:
A B C
0 0.0 1 3
1 0.5 4 2
2 1.0 6 1
3 1.5 NaN NaN
4 2.0 NaN NaN
5 2.5 NaN NaN
6 3.0 NaN NaN
7 3.5 2 0
8 4.0 4 5
9 4.5 3 3
Using the answer by EdChum above, I created the following function
def fill_missing_range(df, field, range_from, range_to, range_step=1, fill_with=0):
return df\
.merge(how='right', on=field,
right = pd.DataFrame({field:np.arange(range_from, range_to, range_step)}))\
.sort_values(by=field).reset_index().fillna(fill_with).drop(['index'], axis=1)
Example usage:
fill_missing_range(df, 'A', 0.0, 4.5, 0.5, np.nan)
In this case I am overwriting your A column with a newly generated dataframe and merging this to your original df, I then resort it:
In [177]:
df.merge(how='right', on='A', right = pd.DataFrame({'A':np.arange(df.iloc[0]['A'], df.iloc[-1]['A'] + 0.5, 0.5)})).sort(columns='A').reset_index().drop(['index'], axis=1)
Out[177]:
A B C
0 0.0 1 3
1 0.5 4 2
2 1.0 6 1
3 1.5 NaN NaN
4 2.0 NaN NaN
5 2.5 NaN NaN
6 3.0 NaN NaN
7 3.5 2 0
8 4.0 4 5
9 4.5 3 3
So in the general case you can adjust the arange
function which takes a start and end value, note I added 0.5 to the end as ranges are open closed, and pass a step value.
A more general method could be like this:
In [197]:
df = df.set_index(keys='A', drop=False).reindex(np.arange(df.iloc[0]['A'], df.iloc[-1]['A'] + 0.5, 0.5))
df.reset_index(inplace=True)
df['A'] = df['index']
df.drop(['A'], axis=1, inplace=True)
df.reset_index().drop(['level_0'], axis=1)
Out[197]:
index B C
0 0.0 1 3
1 0.5 4 2
2 1.0 6 1
3 1.5 NaN NaN
4 2.0 NaN NaN
5 2.5 NaN NaN
6 3.0 NaN NaN
7 3.5 2 0
8 4.0 4 5
9 4.5 3 3
Here we set the index to column A
but don't drop it and then reindex the df using the arange
function.