pandas aggregate count in dataframe

Question

I have a DataFrame and I am using .aggregate({'col1': np.sum}), this will perform a summation of the values in col1 and aggregate them together. Is it possible to perform a count, something like .aggregate({'col1': some count function here})?

Answer 1

You can use 'size', 'count', or 'nunique' depending on your use case. The differences between them being:

• 'size': the count including NaN and repeat values.
• 'count': the count excluding NaN but including repeats.
• 'nunique': the count of unique values, excluding repeats and NaN.

For example, consider the following DataFrame:

df = pd.DataFrame({'col0': list('aabbcc'), 'col1': [1, 1, 2, np.nan, 3, 4]})

  col0  col1
0    a   1.0
1    a   1.0
2    b   2.0
3    b   NaN
4    c   3.0
5    c   4.0

Then using the three functions described:

df.groupby('col0')['col1'].agg(['size', 'count', 'nunique'])

      size  count  nunique
col0                      
a        2      2        1
b        2      1        1
c        2      2        2