

However, apply() is only allowed a function.
#PANDAS GROUPBY TRANSFORM SERIES#
def subtract_two(x): return x - xĪpply() works with multiple Series at a time. To demonstrate this, let’s create a function to work on 2 Series at a time.

Manipulating values”, and we just don’t need to specify the argument axis on a groupby() result. This is the same difference as we mentioned in “ 1. But transform() is only allowed to work with a single Series at a time. (2) apply() works with multiple Series at a time. apply(group_sum) gr_data_ap key a 9 b 12 c 15 Name: A, dtype: int64įor transform(), it returns a Series that has the same length as the given DataFrame and the output shape is (len(df), 1) gr_data_tr = df.groupby('key'). # Aggregating the sum of the given Series def group_sum(x): return x.sum()įor apply(), it returns one value for each group and the output shape is (num_of_groups, 1). To demonstrate this, let’s make a function to produce an aggregated result. (1) transform() returns a Series that has the same length as the input In the example above, the data can be split into three groups by key.
