Basically, I have a bunch of data where the first column is a string (label) and the remaining columns are numeric values. I run the following:
data = numpy.genfromtxt('data.txt', delimiter = ',')
This reads most of the data well, but the label column just gets 'nan'. How can I deal with this?
For a dataset of this format:
CONFIG000 1080.65 1080.87 1068.76 1083.52 1084.96 1080.31 1081.75 1079.98
CONFIG001 414.6 421.76 418.93 415.53 415.23 416.12 420.54 415.42
CONFIG010 1091.43 1079.2 1086.61 1086.58 1091.14 1080.58 1076.64 1083.67
CONFIG011 391.31 392.96 391.24 392.21 391.94 392.18 391.96 391.66
CONFIG100 1067.08 1062.1 1061.02 1068.24 1066.74 1052.38 1062.31 1064.28
CONFIG101 371.63 378.36 370.36 371.74 370.67 376.24 378.15 371.56
CONFIG110 1060.88 1072.13 1076.01 1069.52 1069.04 1068.72 1064.79 1066.66
CONFIG111 350.08 350.69 352.1 350.19 352.28 353.46 351.83 350.94
This code works for my application:
def ShowData(data, names):
i = 0
while i < data.shape[0]:
print(names[i] + ": ")
j = 0
while j < data.shape[1]:
print(data[i][j])
j += 1
print("")
i += 1
def Main():
print("The sample data is: ")
fname = 'ANOVA.csv'
csv = numpy.genfromtxt(fname, dtype=str, delimiter=",")
num_rows = csv.shape[0]
num_cols = csv.shape[1]
names = csv[:,0]
data = numpy.genfromtxt(fname, usecols = range(1,num_cols), delimiter=",")
print(names)
print(str(num_rows) + "x" + str(num_cols))
print(data)
ShowData(data, names)
Python-2 output:
The sample data is:
['CONFIG000' 'CONFIG001' 'CONFIG010' 'CONFIG011' 'CONFIG100' 'CONFIG101'
'CONFIG110' 'CONFIG111']
8x9
[[ 1080.65 1080.87 1068.76 1083.52 1084.96 1080.31 1081.75 1079.98]
[ 414.6 421.76 418.93 415.53 415.23 416.12 420.54 415.42]
[ 1091.43 1079.2 1086.61 1086.58 1091.14 1080.58 1076.64 1083.67]
[ 391.31 392.96 391.24 392.21 391.94 392.18 391.96 391.66]
[ 1067.08 1062.1 1061.02 1068.24 1066.74 1052.38 1062.31 1064.28]
[ 371.63 378.36 370.36 371.74 370.67 376.24 378.15 371.56]
[ 1060.88 1072.13 1076.01 1069.52 1069.04 1068.72 1064.79 1066.66]
[ 350.08 350.69 352.1 350.19 352.28 353.46 351.83 350.94]]
CONFIG000:
1080.65
1080.87
1068.76
1083.52
1084.96
1080.31
1081.75
1079.98
CONFIG001:
414.6
421.76
418.93
415.53
415.23
416.12
420.54
415.42
CONFIG010:
1091.43
1079.2
1086.61
1086.58
1091.14
1080.58
1076.64
1083.67
CONFIG011:
391.31
392.96
391.24
392.21
391.94
392.18
391.96
391.66
CONFIG100:
1067.08
1062.1
1061.02
1068.24
1066.74
1052.38
1062.31
1064.28
CONFIG101:
371.63
378.36
370.36
371.74
370.67
376.24
378.15
371.56
CONFIG110:
1060.88
1072.13
1076.01
1069.52
1069.04
1068.72
1064.79
1066.66
CONFIG111:
350.08
350.69
352.1
350.19
352.28
353.46
351.83
350.94
data=np.genfromtxt(csv_file, delimiter=',', dtype='unicode')
It works fine for me.
You can use numpy.recfromcsv(filename)
: the types of each column will be automatically determined (as if you use np.genfromtxt()
with dtype=None
), and by default delimiter=","
. It's basically a shortcut for np.genfromtxt(filename, delimiter=",", dtype=None)
that Pierre GM pointed at in his answer.
If your data file is structured like this
col1, col2, col3
1, 2, 3
10, 20, 30
100, 200, 300
then numpy.genfromtxt
can interpret the first line as column headers using the names=True
option. With this you can access the data very conveniently by providing the column header:
data = np.genfromtxt('data.txt', delimiter=',', names=True)
print data['col1'] # array([ 1., 10., 100.])
print data['col2'] # array([ 2., 20., 200.])
print data['col3'] # array([ 3., 30., 300.])
Since in your case the data is formed like this
row1, 1, 10, 100
row2, 2, 20, 200
row3, 3, 30, 300
you can achieve something similar using the following code snippet:
labels = np.genfromtxt('data.txt', delimiter=',', usecols=0, dtype=str)
raw_data = np.genfromtxt('data.txt', delimiter=',')[:,1:]
data = {label: row for label, row in zip(labels, raw_data)}
The first line reads the first column (the labels) into an array of strings.
The second line reads all data from the file but discards the first column.
The third line uses dictionary comprehension to create a dictionary that can be used very much like the structured array which numpy.genfromtxt
creates using the names=True
option:
print data['row1'] # array([ 1., 10., 100.])
print data['row2'] # array([ 2., 20., 200.])
print data['row3'] # array([ 3., 30., 300.])
Source: Stackoverflow.com