pandas - get most recent value of a particular column indexed by another column (get maximum value of a particular column indexed by another column)

Question

I have the following dataframe:

   obj_id   data_date   value
0  4        2011-11-01  59500    
1  2        2011-10-01  35200 
2  4        2010-07-31  24860          


        

Answer 1

I believe to have found a more appropriate solution based off the ones in this thread. However mine uses the apply function of a dataframe instead of the aggregate. It also returns a new dataframe with the same columns as the original.

df = pd.DataFrame({
'CARD_NO': ['000', '001', '002', '002', '001', '111'],
'DATE': ['2006-12-31 20:11:39','2006-12-27 20:11:53','2006-12-28 20:12:11','2006-12-28 20:12:13','2008-12-27 20:11:53','2006-12-30 20:11:39']})

print df 
df.groupby('CARD_NO').apply(lambda df:df['DATE'].values[df['DATE'].values.argmax()])

Original

CARD_NO                 DATE
0     000  2006-12-31 20:11:39
1     001  2006-12-27 20:11:53
2     002  2006-12-28 20:12:11
3     002  2006-12-28 20:12:13
4     001  2008-12-27 20:11:53
5     111  2006-12-30 20:11:39

Returned dataframe:

CARD_NO
000        2006-12-31 20:11:39
001        2008-12-27 20:11:53
002        2006-12-28 20:12:13
111        2006-12-30 20:11:39