Nested dict of lists to pandas DataFrame

Question

I have a rather messy nested dictionary that I am trying to convert to a pandas data frame. The data is stored in a dictionary of lists contained in a broader dictionary, where each key/value breakdown follows: {userID_key: {postID_key: [list of hash tags]}}

Here's a more specific example of what the data looks like:

   {'user_1': {'postID_1':  ['#fitfam',
                             '#gym',
                             '#bro'],
               'postID_2':  ['#swol',
                             '#anotherhashtag']},
    'user_2': {'postID_78': ['#ripped',
                             '#bro',
                             '#morehashtags'],
               'postID_1':  ['#buff',
                             '#othertags']},
    'user_3': ...and so on }

I want to create a data frame that gives me the frequency counts of each hashtag for each (userID,postID) pair like below:

+------------+------------+--------+-----+-----+------+-----+
| UserID_key | PostID_key | fitfam | gym | bro | swol | ... |
+------------+------------+--------+-----+-----+------+-----+
| user_1     | postID_1   | 1      | 1   | 1   | 0    | ... |
| user_1     | postID_2   | 0      | 0   | 0   | 1    | ... |
| user_2     | postID_78  | 0      | 0   | 1   | 0    | ... |
| user_2     | postID_1   | 0      | 0   | 0   | 0    | ... |
| user_3     | ...        | ...    | ... | ... | ...  | ... |
+------------+------------+--------+-----+-----+------+-----+

I had scikit-learn's CountVectorizer as an idea but it's not going to be able to process a nested dictionary. Would appreciate any help getting it into that desired form.

Possible duplicate of [Construct pandas DataFrame from items in nested dictionary](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13575090/construct-pandas-dataframe-from-items-in-nested-dictionary) — alkasm, Feb 04 '19 at 02:03

cs95 · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-04T15:45:18.660

Building on my answer to another question, you can build and concatenate sub-frames using pd.concat, then use stack and get_dummies:

(pd.concat({k: pd.DataFrame.from_dict(v, orient='index') for k, v in dct.items()})
   .stack()
   .str.get_dummies()
   .sum(level=[0, 1]))

                  #anotherhashtag  #bro  #buff  #fitfam  #gym  #morehashtags  #othertags  #ripped  #swol
user_1 postID_1                 0     1      0        1     1              0           0        0      0
       postID_2                 1     0      0        0     0              0           0        0      1
user_2 postID_78                0     1      0        0     0              1           0        1      0
       postID_1                 0     0      1        0     0              0           1        0      0

Nested dict of lists to pandas DataFrame

1 Answers1

Linked