Pandas: Increment or reset count based on another column

Question

I have a Pandas DataFrame representing a time series of scores. I want to use that score to calculate a CookiePoints column based on the following criteria:

• Every time the score improves compared to the previous score, a CookiePoint is given.
• Every time the score does not improve, all CookiePoints are taken away as punishment (CookiePoints is set to 0).
• 3 Cookiepoints can be traded in for a Cookie. Therefore, after 3 has been reached, the CookiePoints count should either be 1 (if score is higher) or 0 (if score isn't higher).

See below for an example:

Score       CookiePoints
14          0
13          0
14          1
17          2
17          0
19          1
20          2
22          3
23          1
17          0
19          1
20          2
22          3
21          0

Note that this is a minimal, reproducible example . A solution must use a Pandas DataFrame, and ideally only vectorized operations.

Answer 1

It's certainly a tricky question, but still possible to solve within Pandas. (Update V3 solution)

Version 3 (OneLiner)

score = pd.Series([14,13,14,17,17,19,20,22,23,17,19,20,22,21])
result = score.diff().gt(0).pipe(lambda x:x.groupby((~x).cumsum()).cumsum().mod(3).replace(0,3).where(x,0).map(int))

Version 2

score = pd.Series([14,13,14,17,17,19,20,22,23,17,19,20,22,21])

mask= score.diff()>0        

result = mask.groupby((~mask).cumsum()).cumsum().mod(3).replace(0,3).where(mask,0).map(int)

Version 1

score = pd.Series([14,13,14,17,17,19,20,22,23,17,19,20,22,21])

mask= score.diff()>0        # Identify score going up

mask 

0     False
1     False
2      True
3      True
4     False
5      True
6      True
7      True
8      True
9     False
10     True
11     True
12     True
13    False
dtype: bool

# Use False Cumsum to group True values

group = (mask==False).cumsum()

group
0     1
1     2
2     2
3     2
4     3
5     3
6     3
7     3
8     3
9     4
10    4
11    4
12    4
13    5
dtype: int64

# Groupby False Cumsum
temp = mask.groupby(group).cumsum().map(int)
temp

0     0
1     0
2     1
3     2
4     0
5     1
6     2
7     3
8     4
9     0
10    1
11    2
12    3
13    0
dtype: int64

# Fix Cap at 3
# result = temp.where(temp<=3,temp.mod(3)) # This is Wrong. 

result = temp.mod(3).replace(0,3).where(mask,0)
result

0     0
1     0
2     1
3     2
4     0
5     1
6     2
7     3
8     1
9     0
10    1
11    2
12    3
13    0
dtype: int64