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Analyzing Police Activity with pandas

Kevin Markham

Founder, Data School

Driver gender and vehicle searches

ri.search_conducted.mean()
0.0382153092354627
ri.groupby('driver_gender').search_conducted.mean()
driver_gender
F    0.019181
M    0.045426
Analyzing Police Activity with pandas
ri.groupby(['violation', 'driver_gender']).search_conducted.mean()
violation            driver_gender
Equipment            F                0.039984
                     M                0.071496
Moving violation     F                0.039257
                     M                0.061524
Other                F                0.041018
                     M                0.046191
Registration/plates  F                0.054924
                     M                0.108802
Seat belt            F                0.017301
                     M                0.035119
Speeding             F                0.008309
                     M                0.027885
Analyzing Police Activity with pandas
search_rate = ri.groupby(['violation',
                          'driver_gender']).search_conducted.mean()

search_rate
violation          driver_gender
Equipment          F               0.039984
                   M               0.071496
Moving violation   F               0.039257
                   M               0.061524
...                ...                  ...
type(search_rate)

type(search_rate.index)
pandas.core.series.Series

pandas.core.indexes.multi.MultiIndex
Analyzing Police Activity with pandas
violation          driver_gender
Equipment          F               0.039984
                   M               0.071496
Moving violation   F               0.039257
                   M               0.061524
...                ...                  ...
search_rate.loc['Equipment']
driver_gender
F    0.039984
M    0.071496
search_rate.loc['Equipment', 'M']
0.07149643705463182
Analyzing Police Activity with pandas

Converting a multi-indexed Series to a DataFrame

search_rate.unstack()
driver_gender             F         M
violation
Equipment          0.039984  0.071496
Moving violation   0.039257  0.061524
Other              0.041018  0.046191
...                     ...       ...
type(search_rate.unstack())
pandas.core.frame.DataFrame
Analyzing Police Activity with pandas

Converting a multi-indexed Series to a DataFrame

ri.pivot_table(index='violation',
               columns='driver_gender',
               values='search_conducted')
driver_gender             F         M
violation
Equipment          0.039984  0.071496
Moving violation   0.039257  0.061524
Other              0.041018  0.046191
...                     ...       ...
Analyzing Police Activity with pandas

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Analyzing Police Activity with pandas

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