DOC: Explain pivot vs. pivot_table (#6950) #14650
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mroeschke
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Nov 14, 2016
mroeschke
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- closes ENH/CLN: Make df.pivot to the mapping of pivot_table #6950
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| DataFrame.pivot : pivot without aggregation that can handle | ||
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Can you add a similar reference in pivot to pivot_table ?
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The pivot docstring already references pivot_table (here)
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Ah, yes, that's good. But not yet the pd.pivot one, and that is apparently located here: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/blob/master/pandas/core/reshape.py#L339
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Ah, thank you for bringing that to my attention. I'll push that change later tonight.
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| Note that this returns a view on the underlying data in the case where the data | |||
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| While ``pivot`` provides general purpose pivoting of DataFrames with various | |||
| data types (strings, numerics, etc.), Pandas also provides the ``pivot_table`` | |||
| function for pivoting with aggregation of numeric data (see the | |||
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i would love this down to the first paragraph in the pivot section
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Sounds good @jreback. I'll push the change later tonight.
Move pivot paragraph to pivot table section add pivot_table reference to pivot
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@jorisvandenbossche @jreback Thanks for the feedback. Implemented the changes you guys suggested. |
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@mroeschke Thanks a lot! (feel free to do more PRs with doc improvements :-)) |
