Read JSON to pandas dataframe - ValueError: Mixing dicts with non-Series may lead to ambiguous ordering

Question

I am trying to read in the JSON structure below into pandas dataframe, but it throws out the error message:

ValueError: Mixing dicts with non-Series may

Answer 1

If you need only the result part in the data frame, here is the code to help you:

import json
import pandas as pd
data = json.load(open('json_file.json'))

df = pd.DataFrame(data["result"])

To the best of my knowledge, the ValueError occurs because the data types are all over the place, some strings, some lists, multiple {} etc. This error may be solved by normalizing the data. To do that, here is the code below:

import json

with open('json_file.json') as project_file:    
    data = json.load(project_file)  

df = pd.json_normalize(data)