JSON to pandas DataFrame

Question

What I am trying to do is extract elevation data from a google maps API along a path specified by latitude and longitude coordinates as follows:

from urllib2         


        

Answer 1

Once you have the flattened DataFrame obtained by the accepted answer, you can make the columns a MultiIndex ("fancy multiline header") like this:

df.columns = pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples([tuple(c.split('.')) for c in df.columns])