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

As someone who is also learning pandas I found the other answers a bit implicit as pandas hides most of the work behind the scenes. Namely in how the operation works by automatically matching up column and index names. This code should be equivalent to a step by step version of @exp1orer's accepted answer

With the df, I'll call it by the alias state_office_sales:

                  sales
state office_id        
AZ    2          839507
      4          373917
      6          347225
CA    1          798585
      3          890850
      5          454423
CO    1          819975
      3          202969
      5          614011
WA    2          163942
      4          369858
      6          959285

state_total_sales is state_office_sales grouped by total sums in index level 0 (leftmost).

In:   state_total_sales = df.groupby(level=0).sum()
      state_total_sales

Out: 
       sales
state   
AZ     2448009
CA     2832270
CO     1495486
WA     595859

Because the two dataframes share an index-name and a column-name pandas will find the appropriate locations through shared indexes like:

In:   state_office_sales / state_total_sales

Out:  

                   sales
state   office_id   
AZ      2          0.448640
        4          0.125865
        6          0.425496
CA      1          0.288022
        3          0.322169
        5          0.389809
CO      1          0.206684
        3          0.357891
        5          0.435425
WA      2          0.321689
        4          0.346325
        6          0.331986

To illustrate this even better, here is a partial total with a XX that has no equivalent. Pandas will match the location based on index and column names, where there is no overlap pandas will ignore it:

In:   partial_total = pd.DataFrame(
                      data   =  {'sales' : [2448009, 595859, 99999]},
                      index  =             ['AZ',    'WA',   'XX' ]
                      )
      partial_total.index.name = 'state'


Out:  
         sales
state
AZ       2448009
WA       595859
XX       99999

In:   state_office_sales / partial_total

Out: 
                   sales
state   office_id   
AZ      2          0.448640
        4          0.125865
        6          0.425496
CA      1          NaN
        3          NaN
        5          NaN
CO      1          NaN
        3          NaN
        5          NaN
WA      2          0.321689
        4          0.346325
        6          0.331986

This becomes very clear when there are no shared indexes or columns. Here missing_index_totals is equal to state_total_sales except that it has a no index-name.

In:   missing_index_totals = state_total_sales.rename_axis("")
      missing_index_totals

Out:  
       sales
AZ     2448009
CA     2832270
CO     1495486
WA     595859

In:   state_office_sales / missing_index_totals 

Out:  ValueError: cannot join with no overlapping index names