How to groupby using multiple operations with Pandas using Python

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Pandas will give you the DataFrame.aggregate() (or DataFrame.agg()) method to perform multiple aggregation operations on one or many columns.

As you can see, the method requires a dictionary containing the column and the operation you want to perform.

It can contain multiple operations in a list.

Here is the code

One column

# Import the Pandas library
import pandas as pd

# We create our example dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame({"product" :  ["Stickers", "Jeans", "Mug", "Stickers", "Jeans", "Mug"],
                   "sales_in_usd" : [10000, 24198, 1210, 13123, 31903, 7312],
                   "year" : [2020, 2020, 2020, 2021, 2021, 2021]})

# We print the total sales amount per product and the avg sales per product (all years combined)
print(df.groupby("product").aggregate({"sales_in_usd": [sum, 'mean']}))
The total sales amount per product and the avg sales per product

Multiple columns

# Import the Pandas library
import pandas as pd

# We create our example dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame({"product" :  ["Stickers", "Jeans", "Mug", "Stickers", "Jeans", "Mug"],
                   "sales_in_usd" : [10000, 24198, 1210, 13123, 31903, 7312],
                   "cogs" : [3420, 12345, 913, 5670, 16402, 6402],
                   "year" : [2020, 2020, 2020, 2021, 2021, 2021]})

# We print the total sales amount per product and the avg sales per product (all years combined)
print(df.groupby("product").aggregate({"sales_in_usd": [sum, 'mean'], 
                                       "cogs" : [sum, 'mean']}))
The total sales and cogs amount and the avg sales and cogs per product

Here you are! You now know how to groupby using multiple operations with Pandas using Python.

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