Most frequently occurring numbers across multiple columns using pandas - python-3.x

Question

I have a data frame with numbers in multiple columns listed by date, what I'm trying to do is find out the most frequently occurring numbers across the whole data set, also grouped by date.
import pandas as pd
import glob
def lotnorm(pdobject) :
# clean up special characters in the column names and make the date column the index as a date type.
pdobject["Date"] = pd.to_datetime(pdobject["Date"])
pdobject = pdobject.set_index('Date')
for column in pdobject:
if '#' in column:
pdobject = pdobject.rename(columns={column:column.replace('#','')})
return pdobject
def lotimport() :
lotret = {}
# list files in data directory with csv filename
for lotpath in [f for f in glob.glob("data/*.csv")]:
lotname = lotpath.split('\\')[1].split('.')[0]
lotret[lotname] = lotnorm(pd.read_csv(lotpath))
return lotret
print(lotimport()['ozlotto'])
------------- Output ---------------------
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Date
2020-07-07 4 5 7 9 12 13 32 19 35
2020-06-30 1 17 26 28 38 39 44 14 41
2020-06-23 1 3 9 13 17 20 41 28 45
2020-06-16 1 2 13 21 22 27 38 24 33
2020-06-09 8 11 26 27 31 38 39 3 36
... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
2005-11-15 7 10 13 17 30 32 41 20 14
2005-11-08 12 18 22 28 33 43 45 23 13
2005-11-01 1 3 11 17 24 34 43 39 4
2005-10-25 7 16 23 29 36 39 42 19 43
2005-10-18 5 9 12 30 33 39 45 7 19
The output I am aiming for is
Number frequency
45 201
32 195
24 187
14 160
48 154
--------------- Updated with append experiment -----------
I tried using append to create a single series from the dataframe, which worked for individual lines of code but got a really odd result when I ran it inside a for loop.
temp = lotimport()['ozlotto']['1']
print(temp)
temp = temp.append(lotimport()['ozlotto']['2'], ignore_index=True, verify_integrity=True)
print(temp)
temp = temp.append(lotimport()['ozlotto']['3'], ignore_index=True, verify_integrity=True)
print(temp)
lotcomb = pd.DataFrame()
for i in (lotimport()['ozlotto'].columns.tolist()):
print(f"{i} - {type(i)}")
lotcomb = lotcomb.append(lotimport()['ozlotto'][i], ignore_index=True, verify_integrity=True)
print(lotcomb)

Answer 1

This solution might be the one you are looking for.
freqvalues = np.unique(df.to_numpy(), return_counts=True)
df2 = pd.DataFrame(index=freqvalues[0], data=freqvalues[1], columns=["Frequency"])
df2.index.name = "Numbers"
df2
Output:
Frequency
Numbers
1 6
2 5
3 5
5 8
6 4
7 7
8 2
9 7
10 3
11 4
12 2
13 8
14 1
15 4
16 4
17 6
18 4
19 5
20 9
21 3
22 4
23 2
24 4
25 5
26 4
27 6
28 1
29 6
30 3
31 3
... ...
70 6
71 6
72 5
73 5
74 2
75 8
76 5
77 3
78 3
79 2
80 3
81 4
82 6
83 9
84 5
85 4
86 1
87 3
88 4
89 3
90 4
91 4
92 3
93 5
94 1
95 4
96 6
97 6
98 1
99 6
97 rows × 1 columns

Answer 2

df.max(axis=0)
for columns
df.max(axis=1)
for index

Answer 3

Ok so the final answer I came up with was a mix of a few things including some of the great input from people in this thread. Essentially I do the following:
Pull in the CSV file and clean up the dates and the column names, then convert it to a pandas dataframe.
Then create a new pandas series and append each column to it ignoring dates to prevent conflicts.
Once I have the series, I use Vioxini's suggestion to use numpy to get counts of unique values and then turn the values into the index, after that sort the column by count in descending order and return the top 10 values.
Below is the resulting code, I hope it helps someone else.
import pandas as pd
import glob
import numpy as np
def lotnorm(pdobject) :
# clean up special characters in the column names and make the date column the index as a date type.
pdobject["Date"] = pd.to_datetime(pdobject["Date"])
pdobject = pdobject.set_index('Date')
for column in pdobject:
if '#' in column:
pdobject = pdobject.rename(columns={column:column.replace('#','')})
return pdobject
def lotimport() :
lotret = {}
# list files in data directory with csv filename
for lotpath in [f for f in glob.glob("data/*.csv")]:
lotname = lotpath.split('\\')[1].split('.')[0]
lotret[lotname] = lotnorm(pd.read_csv(lotpath))
return lotret
lotcomb = pd.Series([],dtype=object)
for i in (lotimport()['ozlotto'].columns.tolist()):
lotcomb = lotcomb.append(lotimport()['ozlotto'][i], ignore_index=True, verify_integrity=True)
freqvalues = np.unique(lotcomb.to_numpy(), return_counts=True)
lotop = pd.DataFrame(index=freqvalues[0], data=freqvalues[1], columns=["Frequency"])
lotop.index.name = "Numbers"
lotop.sort_values(by=['Frequency'],ascending=False).head(10)