How do I create a new column with Groupby().Sum()?
There are two ways - one straightforward and the other slightly more interesting.
Everybody's Favorite: GroupBy.transform() with 'sum'
@Ed Chum's answer can be simplified, a bit. Call DataFrame.groupby rather than Series.groupby. This results in simpler syntax.
# The setup.
df[['Date', 'Data3']]
Date Data3
0 2015-05-08 5
1 2015-05-07 8
2 2015-05-06 6
3 2015-05-05 1
4 2015-05-08 50
5 2015-05-07 100
6 2015-05-06 60
7 2015-05-05 120
df.groupby('Date')['Data3'].transform('sum')
0 55
1 108
2 66
3 121
4 55
5 108
6 66
7 121
Name: Data3, dtype: int64
It's a tad faster,
df2 = pd.concat([df] * 12345)
%timeit df2['Data3'].groupby(df['Date']).transform('sum')
%timeit df2.groupby('Date')['Data3'].transform('sum')
10.4 ms ± 367 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)
8.58 ms ± 559 µs per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 100 loops each)
Unconventional, but Worth your Consideration: GroupBy.sum() + Series.map()
I stumbled upon an interesting idiosyncrasy in the API. From what I tell, you can reproduce this on any major version over 0.20 (I tested this on 0.23 and 0.24). It seems like you consistently can shave off a few milliseconds of the time taken by transform if you instead use a direct function of GroupBy and broadcast it using map:
df.Date.map(df.groupby('Date')['Data3'].sum())
0 55
1 108
2 66
3 121
4 55
5 108
6 66
7 121
Name: Date, dtype: int64
Compare with
df.groupby('Date')['Data3'].transform('sum')
0 55
1 108
2 66
3 121
4 55
5 108
6 66
7 121
Name: Data3, dtype: int64
My tests show that map is a bit faster if you can afford to use the direct GroupBy function (such as mean, min, max, first, etc). It is more or less faster for most general situations upto around ~200 thousand records. After that, the performance really depends on the data.
(Left: v0.23, Right: v0.24)
Nice alternative to know, and better if you have smaller frames with smaller numbers of groups. . . but I would recommend transform as a first choice. Thought this was worth sharing anyway.
Benchmarking code, for reference:
import perfplot
perfplot.show(
setup=lambda n: pd.DataFrame({'A': np.random.choice(n//10, n), 'B': np.ones(n)}),
kernels=[
lambda df: df.groupby('A')['B'].transform('sum'),
lambda df: df.A.map(df.groupby('A')['B'].sum()),
],
labels=['GroupBy.transform', 'GroupBy.sum + map'],
n_range=[2**k for k in range(5, 20)],
xlabel='N',
logy=True,
logx=True
)