Pandas Dataframe to Nested JSON

Question

I am trying to convert a Pandas Dataframe to a JSON object. My Dataframe contains data in the following format:

         student      date    grade                  


        

Answer 1

You can first define a function to convert sub-groups to json, then apply this function to each group, and then merge sub-group jsons to a single json object.

def f(x):
    return (dict({'date':x.date.iloc[0]},**{k:v for k,v in zip(x.student,x.grade)}))

(
    df.groupby(['course','date'])
      .apply(f)
      .groupby(level=0)
      .apply(lambda x: x.tolist())
      .to_dict()
)
Out[1006]: 
{'ENGLISH': [{'Student_1': 93, 'Student_2': 83, 'date': '2017-06-25'},
  {'Student_1': 96, 'Student_2': 99, 'date': '2017-06-26'}],
 'MATH': [{'Student_1': 93, 'Student_2': 83, 'date': '2017-06-25'},
  {'Student_1': 90, 'Student_2': 85, 'date': '2017-06-26'}]}