[FIXED] Value counts by multi-column groupby

Issue

I have a Pandas dataframe that I'm grouping by two columns: ID and Item. I am then keeping the last 5 occurrences in each group (maximum), and would finally like to calculate a ratio of the number of occurrences of one specific type.Specifically, I would like to calculate the count of 'U' for each ID-item divided by the total number of occurrences.

I am having trouble with the last step - I am not sure how to get from the general value counts below to a ratio for each ID-Item grouping. Any tips would be much appreciated - thank you!

d={'ID':[1,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,2],'Item': ['box','box','ball','ball','box','box','box','ball','box','ball'],'Direction':['D','U','U','D','U','U','D','D','D','D']}
df=pd.DataFrame(data=d)

z=company_item['revision_arrow'].value_counts()

groups=df.groupby(['ID','Item'])
max_count=5
lastfive=groups.head(max_count).reset_index(drop=True)

#count_series=lastfive['Direction'].value_counts()
count_series=groups['Direction'].value_counts()

Solution

When you use value_counts, you have the option to normalize the results. You can use this parameter, and then index the resulting DataFrame to only include the U rows:

out = (df.groupby(['ID', 'Item'])
          .Direction.value_counts(normalize=True)
          .rename('ratio').reset_index())

out.loc[out.Direction.eq('U')]

   ID  Item Direction     ratio
1   1  ball         U  0.500000
2   1   box         U  0.666667
6   2   box         U  0.333333

Answered By - user3483203