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twillk
twillk

Reputation: 17

Merge two data-frames based on multiple conditions

I am looking to compare two dataframes (df-a and df-b) and search for where a given ID and date from 1 dataframe (df-b) sits within a date range where the ID matches in the other dataframe (df-a). I then want to strip all the columns in df-a and concat them to df-b where they match. E.g

If I have a dataframe df-a, in the following format df-a:

    ID       Start_Date    End_Date     A   B   C   D   E 
0   cd2      2020-06-01    2020-06-24   'a' 'b' 'c' 10  20
1   cd2      2020-06-24    2020-07-21
2   cd56     2020-06-10    2020-07-03
3   cd915    2020-04-28    2020-07-21
4   cd103    2020-04-13    2020-04-24

and df-b in

    ID      Date
0   cd2     2020-05-12
1   cd2     2020-04-12
2   cd2     2020-06-10
3   cd15    2020-04-28
4   cd193   2020-04-13

I would like an output df like so df-c=

    ID      Date        Start_Date  End_Date    A   B   C   D   E 
0   cd2     2020-05-12      -           -       -   -   -   -   -
1   cd2     2020-04-12      -           -       -   -   -   -   -
2   cd2     2020-06-10 2020-06-01 2020-06-11    'a' 'b' 'c' 10  20
3   cd15    2020-04-28      -           -       -   -   -   -   -
4   cd193   2020-04-13      -           -       -   -   -   -   -

In a previous post I got a brilliant answer which allowed to compare the data-frames and drop wherever this condition was met, but I am struggling to figure out how to extract the information appropriately from df-a. Current attempts are below!

df_c=df_b.copy()

ar=[]
for i in range(df_c.shape[0]):
    currentID = df_c.stafnum[i]
    currentDate = df_c.Date[i]
    df_a_entriesForCurrentID = df_a.loc[df_a.stafnum == currentID]

    for j in range(df_a_entriesForCurrentID.shape[0]):
        startDate = df_a_entriesForCurrentID.iloc[j,:].Leave_Start_Date
        endDate = df_a_entriesForCurrentID.iloc[j,:].Leave_End_Date

        if (startDate <= currentDate <= endDate):
            print(df_c.loc[i])
            print(df_a_entriesForCurrentID.iloc[j,:])
            
            #df_d=pd.concat([df_c.loc[i], df_a_entriesForCurrentID.iloc[j,:]], axis=0)
            
            #df_fin_2=df_fin.append(df_d, ignore_index=True)
            #ar.append(df_d)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 509

Answers (1)

RichieV
RichieV

Reputation: 5183

So you want to make a sort of "soft" match. Here's a solution that attempts to vectorize the date range matching.

# notice working with dates as strings, inequalities will only work if dates in format y-m-d
# otherwise it is safer to parse all date columns like `df_a.Date = pd.to_datetime(df_a)`

# create a groupby object once so we can efficiently filter df_b inside the loop
# good idea if df_b is considerably large and has many different IDs
gdf_b = df_b.groupby('ID')
b_IDs = gdf_b.indices # returns a dictionary with grouped rows {ID: arr(integer-indices)}

matched = [] # so we can collect matched rows from df_b
# iterate over rows with `.itertuples()`, more efficient than iterating range(len(df_a))
for i, ID, date in df_a.itertuples():
    if ID in b_IDs:
        gID = gdf_b.get_group(ID) # get the filtered df_b
        inrange = gID.Start_Date.le(date) & gID.End_Date.ge(date)
        if any(inrange):
            matched.append(
                gID.loc[inrange.idxmax()] # get the first row with date inrange
                .values[1:] # use the array without column indices and slice `ID` out
            )
        else:
            matched.append([np.nan] * (df_b.shape[1] - 1)) # no date inrange, fill with NaNs
    else:
        matched.append([np.nan] * (df_b.shape[1] - 1)) # no ID match, fill with NaNs
df_c = df_a.join(pd.DataFrame(matched, columns=df_b.columns[1:]))
print(df_c)

Output

      ID        Date  Start_Date    End_Date    A    B    C     D     E
0    cd2  2020-05-12         NaN         NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN   NaN   NaN
1    cd2  2020-04-12         NaN         NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN   NaN   NaN
2    cd2  2020-06-10  2020-06-01  2020-06-24    a    b    c  10.0  20.0
3   cd15  2020-04-28         NaN         NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN   NaN   NaN
4  cd193  2020-04-13         NaN         NaN  NaN  NaN  NaN   NaN   NaN

Upvotes: 1

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