Reshape a pandas DataFrame using stack,unstack and melt method

Pandas use various methods to reshape the dataframe and series. Let’s see about the some of that reshaping method.

Let’s import a dataframe first.

# import pandas module
import pandas as pd

# making dataframe
df = pd.read_csv("https://media.geeksforgeeks.org/wp-content/uploads/nba.csv")

# it was print the first 5-rows
print(df.head())

Output:

Using stack() method:

Stack method works with the MultiIndex objects in DataFrame, it returning a DataFrame with an index with a new inner-most level of row labels. It changes the wide table to a long table.

# import pandas module
import pandas as pd

# making dataframe
df = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")

# reshape the dataframe using stack() method
df_stacked = df.stack()

print(df_stacked.head(26))

Output:


Using unstack() method:
unstack is similar to stack method, It also works with multi-index objects in dataframe, producing a reshaped DataFrame with a new inner-most level of column labels.

# import pandas module
import pandas as pd

# making dataframe
df = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")

# unstack() method
df_unstacked = df_stacked.unstack()
print(df_unstacked.head(10))

Using melt() method:
Melt in pandas reshape dataframe from wide format to long format. It uses the “id_vars[‘col_names’]” for melt the dataframe by column names.

# import pandas module
import pandas as pd

# making dataframe
df = pd.read_csv("nba.csv")

# it takes two columns "Name" and "Team"
df_melt = df.melt(id_vars =['Name', 'Team'])
print(df_melt.head(10))

Output: