Fast convert JSON column into Pandas dataframe

Question

I\'m reading data from a database (50k+ rows) where one column is stored as JSON. I want to extract that into a pandas dataframe. The snippet below works fine but is fairly

Answer 1

I think you can first convert string column data to dict, then create list of numpy arrays by values and last DataFrame.from_records:

df = pd.read_csv('http://pastebin.com/raw/7L86m9R2', \
                 header=None, index_col=0, names=['data'])

a = df.data.apply(json.loads).values.tolist() 
print (pd.DataFrame.from_records(a))

Another idea:

 df = pd.json_normalize(df['data'])