Pivoting a Pandas Dataframe containing strings - 'No numeric types to aggregate' error

Question

There is a good number of questions about this error, but after looking around I\'m still not able to find/wrap my mind around a solution yet. I\'m trying to pivot a data fr

Answer 1

There are several ways.

1

df1 = df.groupby(["id","contact_id","Network_Name","question"])['response_answer'].aggregate(lambda x: x).unstack().reset_index()
df1.columns=df1.columns.tolist()
print (df1)

2

df1 = df.set_index(["id","contact_id","Network_Name","question"])['response_answer'].unstack().reset_index()
df1.columns=df1.columns.tolist()
print (df1)

3

df1 = df.groupby(["id","contact_id","Network_Name","question"])['response_answer'].aggregate('first').unstack().reset_index()
df1.columns=df1.columns.tolist()
print (df1)

4

df1 = df.pivot_table(index=["id","contact_id","Network_Name"], columns='question', values=['response_answer'], aggfunc='first')
df1.columns = df1.columns.droplevel()
df1 = df1.reset_index()
df1.columns=df1.columns.tolist()
print (df1)

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1   17      137520          2206       None    Ca              None
2   18      137521          2206       None    Ca              None
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