Have Pandas column containing lists, how to pivot unique list elements to columns?

Question

I wrote a web scraper to pull information from a table of products and build a dataframe. The data table has a Description column which contains a comma separated string of attr

Answer 1

Use pd.get_dummies

cols = ['PRODUCTS', 'DATE']
pd.get_dummies(
    df.set_index(cols).DESCRIPTION \
      .str.split(',\s*', expand=True).stack()
).groupby(level=cols).sum().astype(int)