How to read a json file directly into a Pandas DataFrame in Python
• 1 minYou might came up needing to read a JSON file and get it in a DataFrame format.
This for various reasons, but most obviously the ease of manipulation.
To do so, you will need a JSON with records in it.
Here is an example
[
{"firstname" : "Jason",
"lastname" : "Smith",
"age" : 28,
"city" : "Melbourne",
"studies" : "Psychology"
},
{"firstname" : "Sofia",
"lastname" : "Johnson",
"age" : 24,
"city" : "Sydney",
"studies" : "Law"
},
{"firstname" : "John",
"lastname" : "Bly",
"age" : 31,
"city" : "New York",
"studies" : "Marketing"
}
]Here is the code
import pandas as pd
# we read our json file
df = pd.read_json("my_json_file.json")
Here you are! You now know how to read a json directly into a pandas DataFrame!
