Pandas percentage of total with groupby

Question

This is obviously simple, but as a numpy newbe I\'m getting stuck.

I have a CSV file that contains 3 columns, the State, the Office ID, and the Sales for that office

Answer 1

The most elegant way to find percentages across columns or index is to use pd.crosstab.

Sample Data

df = pd.DataFrame({'state': ['CA', 'WA', 'CO', 'AZ'] * 3,
               'office_id': list(range(1, 7)) * 2,
               'sales': [np.random.randint(100000, 999999) for _ in range(12)]})

The output dataframe is like this

print(df)

        state   office_id   sales
    0   CA  1   764505
    1   WA  2   313980
    2   CO  3   558645
    3   AZ  4   883433
    4   CA  5   301244
    5   WA  6   752009
    6   CO  1   457208
    7   AZ  2   259657
    8   CA  3   584471
    9   WA  4   122358
    10  CO  5   721845
    11  AZ  6   136928

Just specify the index, columns and the values to aggregate. The normalize keyword will calculate % across index or columns depending upon the context.

result = pd.crosstab(index=df['state'], 
                     columns=df['office_id'], 
                     values=df['sales'], 
                     aggfunc='sum', 
                     normalize='index').applymap('{:.2f}%'.format)




print(result)
office_id   1   2   3   4   5   6
state                       
AZ  0.00%   0.20%   0.00%   0.69%   0.00%   0.11%
CA  0.46%   0.00%   0.35%   0.00%   0.18%   0.00%
CO  0.26%   0.00%   0.32%   0.00%   0.42%   0.00%
WA  0.00%   0.26%   0.00%   0.10%   0.00%   0.63%