Reshaping a Pandas Dataframe: Long-to-Wide and Vice Versa | by Sharone Li | May, 2022
Pivot/Unpivot Pandas Dataframes with These Two Simple MethodsImage by Pixabay (Modified by Author)Reshaping a pandas dataframe is one of the most common data wrangling tasks in the data analysis world. It is also referred to as transposing or pivoting/unpivoting a table from long to wide or from wide to long format. So what is a long data format vs. a wide data format and how do we reshape a dataframe from long-to-wide and vice versa?Let’s take a look at a simple example below. The example shows the average food price…