I am new in this field and stuck on this problem. I have two datasets
all_batsman_df
, this df has 5 columns ('years','team','pos','name','salary')
years team pos name salary
0 1991 SF 1B Will Clark 3750000.0
1 1991 NYY 1B Don Mattingly 3420000.0
2 1991 BAL 1B Glenn Davis 3275000.0
3 1991 MIL DH Paul Molitor 3233333.0
4 1991 TOR 3B Kelly Gruber 3033333.0
all_batting_statistics_df
, this df has 31 columns Year Rk Name Age Tm Lg G PA AB R ... SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Summary
0 1988 1 Glen Davis 22 SDP NL 37 89 83 6 ... 0.289 0.514 48.0 24 1 1 0 1 1 987
1 1988 2 Jim Acker 29 ATL NL 21 6 5 0 ... 0.400 0.900 158.0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
2 1988 3 Jim Adduci* 28 MIL AL 44 97 94 8 ... 0.383 0.641 77.0 36 1 0 0 3 0 7D/93
3 1988 4 Juan Agosto* 30 HOU NL 75 6 5 0 ... 0.000 0.000 -100.0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
4 1988 5 Luis Aguayo 29 TOT MLB 99 260 237 21 ... 0.354 0.663 88.0 84 6 1 1 1 3 564
I want to merge these two datasets on 'year', 'name'
. But the problem is, these both data frames has different names like in the first dataset, it has name 'Glenn Davis'
but in second dataset it has 'Glen Davis'
.
Now, I want to know that How can I merge both of them using difflib
library even it has different names? Any help will be appreciated... Thanks in advance.
I have used this code which I got in a question asked at this platform but it is not working for me. I am adding a new column after matching names in both of the datasets. I know this is not a good approach. Kindly suggest, If i can do it in a better way.
df_a = all_batting_statistics_df
df_b = all_batters
df_a = df_a.astype(str)
df_b = df_b.astype(str)
df_a['merge_year'] = df_a['Year'] # we will use these as the merge keys
df_a['merge_name'] = df_a['Name']
for comp_a, addr_a in df_a[['Year','Name']].values:
for ixb, (comp_b, addr_b) in enumerate(df_b[['years','name']].values):
if cdifflib.CSequenceMatcher(None,comp_a,comp_b).ratio() > .6:
df_b.loc[ixb,'merge_year'] = comp_a # creates a merge key in df_b
if cdifflib.CSequenceMatcher(None,addr_a, addr_b).ratio() > .6:
df_b.loc[ixb,'merge_name'] = addr_a # creates a merge key in df_b
merged_df = pd.merge(df_a,df_b,on=['merge_name','merge_years'],how='inner')
You can do
import difflib
df_b['name'] = df_b['name'].apply(lambda x: \
difflib.get_close_matches(x, df_a['name'])[0])
to replace names in df_b
with closest match from df_a
, then do your merge. See also this post .
Let me get to your problem by assuming that you have to make a data set with 2 columns and the 2 columns being 1. 'year' and 2. 'name' okay
1. we will 1st rename all the names which are wrong I hope you know all the wrong names from all_batting_statistics_df
using this
all_batting_statistics_df.replace(regex=r'^Glen.$', value='Glenn Davis')
once you have corrected all the spellings, choose the smaller one which has the names you know, so it doesn't take long
2. we need both data sets to have the same columns ie only 'year' and 'name' use this to drop the columns we don't need
all_batsman_df_1 = all_batsman_df.drop(['team','pos','salary'])
all_batting_statistics_df_1 = all_batting_statistics_df.drop(['Rk','Name','Age','Tm','Lg','G','PA','AB','R','Summary'], axis=1)
I cannot see all the 31 columns so I left them, you have to add to the above code
3. we need to change the column names to look the same ie 'year' and 'name' using python dataframe rename
df_new_1 = all_batting_statistics_df(colums={'Year': 'year', 'Name':'name'})
4. next, to merge them
all_batsman_df.merge(df_new_1, left_on='year', right_on='name')
FINAL THOUGHTS: If you don't want to do all this find a way to export the data set to google sheets or microsoft excel and use edit them with those advanced software, if you like pandas
then its not that difficult you will find a way, all the best!
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