How to concatenate two dataframes without duplicates?
Question:
I’d like to concatenate two dataframes A, B to a new one without duplicate rows (if rows in B already exist in A, don’t add):
Dataframe A:
I II
0 1 2
1 3 1
Dataframe B:
I II
0 5 6
1 3 1
New Dataframe:
I II
0 1 2
1 3 1
2 5 6
How can I do this?
Answers:
The simplest way is to just do the concatenation, and then drop duplicates.
>>> df1
A B
0 1 2
1 3 1
>>> df2
A B
0 5 6
1 3 1
>>> pandas.concat([df1,df2]).drop_duplicates().reset_index(drop=True)
A B
0 1 2
1 3 1
2 5 6
The reset_index(drop=True) is to fix up the index after the concat() and drop_duplicates(). Without it you will have an index of [0,1,0] instead of [0,1,2]. This could cause problems for further operations on this dataframe down the road if it isn’t reset right away.
In case you have a duplicate row already in DataFrame A, then concatenating and then dropping duplicate rows, will remove rows from DataFrame A that you might want to keep.
In this case, you will need to create a new column with a cumulative count, and then drop duplicates, it all depends on your use case, but this is common in time-series data
Here is an example:
df_1 = pd.DataFrame([
{'date':'11/20/2015', 'id':4, 'value':24},
{'date':'11/20/2015', 'id':4, 'value':24},
{'date':'11/20/2015', 'id':6, 'value':34},])
df_2 = pd.DataFrame([
{'date':'11/20/2015', 'id':4, 'value':24},
{'date':'11/20/2015', 'id':6, 'value':14},
])
df_1['count'] = df_1.groupby(['date','id','value']).cumcount()
df_2['count'] = df_2.groupby(['date','id','value']).cumcount()
df_tot = pd.concat([df_1,df_2], ignore_index=False)
df_tot = df_tot.drop_duplicates()
df_tot = df_tot.drop(['count'], axis=1)
>>> df_tot
date id value
0 11/20/2015 4 24
1 11/20/2015 4 24
2 11/20/2015 6 34
1 11/20/2015 6 14
I’m surprised that pandas doesn’t offer a native solution for this task.
I don’t think that it’s efficient to just drop the duplicates if you work with large datasets (as Rian G suggested).
It is probably most efficient to use sets to find the non-overlapping indices. Then use list comprehension to translate from index to ‘row location’ (boolean), which you need to access rows using iloc[,]. Below you find a function that performs the task. If you don’t choose a specific column (col) to check for duplicates, then indexes will be used, as you requested. If you chose a specific column, be aware that existing duplicate entries in ‘a’ will remain in the result.
import pandas as pd
def append_non_duplicates(a, b, col=None):
if ((a is not None and type(a) is not pd.core.frame.DataFrame) or (b is not None and type(b) is not pd.core.frame.DataFrame)):
raise ValueError('a and b must be of type pandas.core.frame.DataFrame.')
if (a is None):
return(b)
if (b is None):
return(a)
if(col is not None):
aind = a.iloc[:,col].values
bind = b.iloc[:,col].values
else:
aind = a.index.values
bind = b.index.values
take_rows = list(set(bind)-set(aind))
take_rows = [i in take_rows for i in bind]
return(pd.concat([a, b.iloc[take_rows,:]]))
# Usage
a = pd.DataFrame([[1,2,3],[1,5,6],[1,12,13]], index=[1000,2000,5000])
b = pd.DataFrame([[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]], index=[1000,2000,3000])
append_non_duplicates(a,b)
# 0 1 2
# 1000 1 2 3 <- from a
# 2000 1 5 6 <- from a
# 5000 1 12 13 <- from a
# 3000 7 8 9 <- from b
append_non_duplicates(a,b,0)
# 0 1 2
# 1000 1 2 3 <- from a
# 2000 1 5 6 <- from a
# 5000 1 12 13 <- from a
# 2000 4 5 6 <- from b
# 3000 7 8 9 <- from b
Another option:
concatenation = pd.concat([
dfA,
dfB[dfB['I'].isin(dfA['I']) == False], # <-- get all the data in dfB that doesn't show up in dfB (based on values in column 'I')
])
The object concatenation will be:
I II
0 1 2
1 3 1
2 5 6
I’d like to concatenate two dataframes A, B to a new one without duplicate rows (if rows in B already exist in A, don’t add):
Dataframe A:
I II
0 1 2
1 3 1
Dataframe B:
I II
0 5 6
1 3 1
New Dataframe:
I II
0 1 2
1 3 1
2 5 6
How can I do this?
The simplest way is to just do the concatenation, and then drop duplicates.
>>> df1
A B
0 1 2
1 3 1
>>> df2
A B
0 5 6
1 3 1
>>> pandas.concat([df1,df2]).drop_duplicates().reset_index(drop=True)
A B
0 1 2
1 3 1
2 5 6
The reset_index(drop=True) is to fix up the index after the concat() and drop_duplicates(). Without it you will have an index of [0,1,0] instead of [0,1,2]. This could cause problems for further operations on this dataframe down the road if it isn’t reset right away.
In case you have a duplicate row already in DataFrame A, then concatenating and then dropping duplicate rows, will remove rows from DataFrame A that you might want to keep.
In this case, you will need to create a new column with a cumulative count, and then drop duplicates, it all depends on your use case, but this is common in time-series data
Here is an example:
df_1 = pd.DataFrame([
{'date':'11/20/2015', 'id':4, 'value':24},
{'date':'11/20/2015', 'id':4, 'value':24},
{'date':'11/20/2015', 'id':6, 'value':34},])
df_2 = pd.DataFrame([
{'date':'11/20/2015', 'id':4, 'value':24},
{'date':'11/20/2015', 'id':6, 'value':14},
])
df_1['count'] = df_1.groupby(['date','id','value']).cumcount()
df_2['count'] = df_2.groupby(['date','id','value']).cumcount()
df_tot = pd.concat([df_1,df_2], ignore_index=False)
df_tot = df_tot.drop_duplicates()
df_tot = df_tot.drop(['count'], axis=1)
>>> df_tot
date id value
0 11/20/2015 4 24
1 11/20/2015 4 24
2 11/20/2015 6 34
1 11/20/2015 6 14
I’m surprised that pandas doesn’t offer a native solution for this task.
I don’t think that it’s efficient to just drop the duplicates if you work with large datasets (as Rian G suggested).
It is probably most efficient to use sets to find the non-overlapping indices. Then use list comprehension to translate from index to ‘row location’ (boolean), which you need to access rows using iloc[,]. Below you find a function that performs the task. If you don’t choose a specific column (col) to check for duplicates, then indexes will be used, as you requested. If you chose a specific column, be aware that existing duplicate entries in ‘a’ will remain in the result.
import pandas as pd
def append_non_duplicates(a, b, col=None):
if ((a is not None and type(a) is not pd.core.frame.DataFrame) or (b is not None and type(b) is not pd.core.frame.DataFrame)):
raise ValueError('a and b must be of type pandas.core.frame.DataFrame.')
if (a is None):
return(b)
if (b is None):
return(a)
if(col is not None):
aind = a.iloc[:,col].values
bind = b.iloc[:,col].values
else:
aind = a.index.values
bind = b.index.values
take_rows = list(set(bind)-set(aind))
take_rows = [i in take_rows for i in bind]
return(pd.concat([a, b.iloc[take_rows,:]]))
# Usage
a = pd.DataFrame([[1,2,3],[1,5,6],[1,12,13]], index=[1000,2000,5000])
b = pd.DataFrame([[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]], index=[1000,2000,3000])
append_non_duplicates(a,b)
# 0 1 2
# 1000 1 2 3 <- from a
# 2000 1 5 6 <- from a
# 5000 1 12 13 <- from a
# 3000 7 8 9 <- from b
append_non_duplicates(a,b,0)
# 0 1 2
# 1000 1 2 3 <- from a
# 2000 1 5 6 <- from a
# 5000 1 12 13 <- from a
# 2000 4 5 6 <- from b
# 3000 7 8 9 <- from b
Another option:
concatenation = pd.concat([
dfA,
dfB[dfB['I'].isin(dfA['I']) == False], # <-- get all the data in dfB that doesn't show up in dfB (based on values in column 'I')
])
The object concatenation will be:
I II
0 1 2
1 3 1
2 5 6