Make a dataframe with str.count() over the index

Question

EDIT (thanks to Jezrael to lead me on a way to do it):

I have a list of phone numbers, and I'd like for every number to count the number of occurences of each digit. You'd understand that a double for loop isn't possible as I have a few hundred thousands phone numbers to compute on.

For that i create a dataframe (because I feel it might be an effective way to do it) which contains on each row the split of the phone number:

numbers = ['0615260518','0815465948','0215616235','0415291826']
df = pd.DataFrame([list(number) for number in numbers])


Out[1]:
    0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9
0   0   6   1   5   2   6   0   5   1   8
1   0   8   1   5   4   6   5   9   4   8
2   0   2   1   5   6   1   6   2   3   5
3   0   4   1   5   2   9   1   8   2   6

Then I need to fill it with the desired counts. Desired output:

Out[2]:
            0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9
0615260518  2   2   1   0   0   2   2   0   1   0
0815465948  1   1   0   0   2   2   1   0   2   1
0215616235  1   2   2   1   0   2   2   0   0   0
0415291826  1   2   2   0   1   1   1   0   1   1

Here is a bloody not pythonic way to achieve it:

for num in df.index:
    for col in df.columns:
        df.ix[num,col] = num.count(str(col))

Way too long to compute, then Jezrael offered me this solution:

df.apply(lambda x: x.value_counts(), axis=1).fillna(0).astype(int)

Which is way better, but still too long. So I've tried to replace the value_counts which isn't designed for small dataframes:

df.apply(lambda x: digit_count(''.join(x)), axis=1)

Where:

def digit_count(number):
    my_string = list(number.lower())
    my_dict = []
    for i in np.arange(10):
        my_dict.append(my_string.count(str(i)))
    return my_dict

Which is about 3 times faster. But is there any way to do it even faster (I feel this iteration isn't optimal).

Answer 1

You can first convert index to_series , because apply does not work with index yet. Last apply value_counts , fillna and cast to int by astype :

a = (df.index.to_series().apply(lambda x: pd.Series(list(x))))
print (a)
            0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9
0615260518  0  6  1  5  2  6  0  5  1  8
0815465948  0  8  1  5  4  6  5  9  4  8
0215616235  0  2  1  5  6  1  6  2  3  5
0415291826  0  4  1  5  2  9  1  8  2  6

print (a.apply(lambda x: x.value_counts(), axis=1).fillna(0).astype(int))

            0  1  2  3  4  5  6  8  9
0615260518  2  2  1  0  0  2  2  1  0
0815465948  1  1  0  0  2  2  1  2  1
0215616235  1  2  2  1  0  2  2  0  0
0415291826  1  2  2  0  1  1  1  1  1

EDIT:

from collections import Counter
print (pd.DataFrame([x for x in a.apply(Counter, axis=1)]))
   0  1    2    3    4  5  6    8    9
0  2  2  1.0  NaN  NaN  2  2  1.0  NaN
1  1  1  NaN  NaN  2.0  2  1  2.0  1.0
2  1  2  2.0  1.0  NaN  2  2  NaN  NaN
3  1  2  2.0  NaN  1.0  1  1  1.0  1.0

Timings ( len(df)=4 ):

In [288]: %timeit (a.apply(lambda x: x.value_counts(), axis=1))
100 loops, best of 3: 3.74 ms per loop

In [289]: %timeit (pd.DataFrame([x for x in a.apply(Counter, axis=1)]))
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.27 ms per loop

( len(df)=4k ):

In [296]: %timeit (pd.DataFrame([x for x in a.apply(Counter, axis=1)]))
10 loops, best of 3: 87 ms per loop

In [297]: %timeit (a.apply(lambda x: x.value_counts(), axis=1))
1 loop, best of 3: 2.45 s per loop