Splitting dictionary/list inside a Pandas Column into Separate Columns

Question

I have data saved in a postgreSQL database. I am querying this data using Python2.7 and turning it into a Pandas DataFrame. However, the last column of this dat

Answer 1

I strongly recommend the method extract the column 'Pollutants':

df_pollutants = pd.DataFrame(df['Pollutants'].values.tolist(), index=df.index)

it's much faster than

df_pollutants = df['Pollutants'].apply(pd.Series)

when the size of df is giant.