create pandas dataframe from dictionary of dictionaries

Question

I have a dictionary of dictionaries of the form:

{\'user\':{movie:rating} }

For example,

{Jill\': {\'Avenger: Age of Ultro         


        

Answer 1

You can pass the dict of dict to the DataFrame constructor:

In [11]: d = {'Jill': {'Django Unchained': 6.5, 'Gone Girl': 9.0, 'Kill the Messenger': 8.0, 'Avenger: Age of Ultron': 7.0}, 'Toby': {'Django Unchained': 9.0, 'Zoolander': 2.0, 'Avenger: Age of Ultron': 8.5}}

In [12]: pd.DataFrame(d)
Out[12]:
                        Jill  Toby
Avenger: Age of Ultron   7.0   8.5
Django Unchained         6.5   9.0
Gone Girl                9.0   NaN
Kill the Messenger       8.0   NaN
Zoolander                NaN   2.0

Or use the from_dict method:

In [13]: pd.DataFrame.from_dict(d)
Out[13]:
                        Jill  Toby
Avenger: Age of Ultron   7.0   8.5
Django Unchained         6.5   9.0
Gone Girl                9.0   NaN
Kill the Messenger       8.0   NaN
Zoolander                NaN   2.0

In [14]: pd.DataFrame.from_dict(d, orient='index')
Out[14]:
      Django Unchained  Gone Girl  Kill the Messenger  Avenger: Age of Ultron  Zoolander
Jill               6.5          9                   8                     7.0        NaN
Toby               9.0        NaN                 NaN                     8.5          2