Pandas how to get top n group by flag column - python-3.x

Question

I have dataframe like below.
df = pd.DataFrame({'group':[1,2,1,3,3,1,4,4,1,4], 'match': [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1]})
group match
0 1 1
1 2 1
2 1 1
3 3 1
4 3 1
5 1 1
6 4 1
7 4 1
8 1 1
9 4 1
I want to get top n group like below (n=3).
group match
0 1 1
1 1 1
2 1 1
3 1 1
4 4 1
5 4 1
6 4 1
7 3 1
8 3 1
My data, in actually, each row have another information to use, so only sort to num of match, and extract top n.
How to do this?

Answer 1

I believe you need if need top3 groups per column match - use SeriesGroupBy.value_counts with GroupBy.head for top3 per groups and then convert index to DataFrame by Index.to_frame and DataFrame.merge:
s = df.groupby('match')['group'].value_counts().groupby(level=0).head(3).swaplevel()
df = s.index.to_frame().reset_index(drop=True).merge(df)
print (df)
group match
0 1 1
1 1 1
2 1 1
3 1 1
4 4 1
5 4 1
6 4 1
7 3 1
8 3 1
Or if need filter only values if match is 1 use Series.value_counts with filtering by boolean indexing:
s = df.loc[df['match'] == 1, 'group'].value_counts().head(3)
df = s.index.to_frame(name='group').merge(df)
print (df)
group match
0 1 1
1 1 1
2 1 1
3 1 1
4 4 1
5 4 1
6 4 1
7 3 1
8 3 1
Solution with isin and ordered categoricals:
#if need filter match == 1
idx = df.loc[df['match'] == 1, 'group'].value_counts().head(3).index
#if dont need filter
#idx = df.group.value_counts().head(3).index
df = df[df.group.isin(idx)]
df['group'] = pd.CategoricalIndex(df['group'], ordered=True, categories=idx)
df = df.sort_values('group')
print (df)
group match
0 1 1
2 1 1
5 1 1
8 1 1
6 4 1
7 4 1
9 4 1
3 3 1
4 3 1
Difference in solutions is best seen in changed data of match column:
df = pd.DataFrame({'group':[1,2,1,3,3,1,4,4,1,4,10,20,10,20,10,30,40],
'match': [1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]})
print (df)
group match
0 1 1
1 2 1
2 1 1
3 3 1
4 3 1
5 1 1
6 4 1
7 4 1
8 1 1
9 4 1
10 10 0
11 20 0
12 10 0
13 20 0
14 10 0
15 30 0
16 40 0
Top3 values per groups by match:
s = df.groupby('match')['group'].value_counts().groupby(level=0).head(3).swaplevel()
df1 = s.index.to_frame().reset_index(drop=True).merge(df)
print (df1)
group match
0 10 0
1 10 0
2 10 0
3 20 0
4 20 0
5 30 0
6 1 1
7 1 1
8 1 1
9 1 1
10 4 1
11 4 1
12 4 1
13 3 1
14 3 1
Top3 values by match == 1:
s = df.loc[df['match'] == 1, 'group'].value_counts().head(3)
df2 = s.index.to_frame(name='group').merge(df)
print (df2)
group match
0 1 1
1 1 1
2 1 1
3 1 1
4 4 1
5 4 1
6 4 1
7 3 1
8 3 1
Top3 values, match column is not important:
s = df['group'].value_counts().head(3)
df3 = s.index.to_frame(name='group').merge(df)
print (df3)
group match
0 1 1
1 1 1
2 1 1
3 1 1
4 10 0
5 10 0
6 10 0
7 4 1
8 4 1
9 4 1