count rows by certain combination of row values pandas

Question

I have a dataframe (df) like this:

  v1    v2  v3
   0    -30 -15
   0    -30 -7.5
   0    -30 -11.25
   0    -30 -13.125
   0    -30 -14.0625
   0    -30 -1         


        

Answer 1

I think in v1 and v2 are no NaNs, so use transform + size:

df = df[df.groupby(['v1', 'v2'])['v2'].transform('size') == 6]
print (df)
    v1  v2        v3
0    0 -30 -15.00000
1    0 -30  -7.50000
2    0 -30 -11.25000
3    0 -30 -13.12500
4    0 -30 -14.06250
5    0 -30 -13.59375
6    0 -10  -5.00000
7    0 -10  -7.50000
8    0 -10  -6.25000
9    0 -10  -5.62500
10   0 -10  -5.93750
11   0 -10  -6.09375

Detail:

print (df.groupby(['v1', 'v2'])['v2'].transform('size') == 6)
0      True
1      True
2      True
3      True
4      True
5      True
6      True
7      True
8      True
9      True
10     True
11     True
12    False
13    False
14    False
Name: v2, dtype: bool

Unfortunately filter is really slow, so if need better performance use transform:

np.random.seed(123)
N = 1000000
L = list('abcdefghijkl') 
df = pd.DataFrame({'v1': np.random.choice(L, N),
                   'v2':np.random.randint(10000,size=N),
                   'value':np.random.randint(1000,size=N),
                   'value2':np.random.randint(5000,size=N)})
df = df.sort_values(['v1','v2']).reset_index(drop=True)
print (df.head(10))

In [290]: %timeit df.groupby(['v1', 'v2']).filter(lambda x: len(x) == 6)
1 loop, best of 3: 12.1 s per loop

In [291]: %timeit df[df.groupby(['v1', 'v2'])['v2'].transform('size') == 6]
1 loop, best of 3: 176 ms per loop

In [292]: %timeit df[df.groupby(['v1', 'v2']).v2.transform('count').eq(6)]
10 loops, best of 3: 175 ms per loop

---

N = 1000000

ngroups = 1000

df = pd.DataFrame(dict(A = np.random.randint(0,ngroups,size=N),B=np.random.randn(N)))

In [299]: %timeit df.groupby('A').filter(lambda x: len(x) > 1000)
1 loop, best of 3: 330 ms per loop

In [300]: %timeit df[df.groupby(['A'])['A'].transform('size') > 1000]
10 loops, best of 3: 101 ms per loop

Caveat

The results do not address performance given the number of groups, which will affect timings a lot for some of these solutions.