pandas equivalent for R dcast

Question

I have some data like this:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame(index = range(1,13), columns=[\'school\', \'year\', \'metric\', \'values\'], )
df[\'school\'] =         


        

Answer 1

you can use pivot_table():

In [23]: df2 = (df.pivot_table(index=['school', 'year'], columns='metric',
   ....:                       values='values')
   ....:          .reset_index()
   ....:       )

In [24]:

In [24]: df2
Out[24]:
metric school  year  admitsize  avgfinaid  tuition
0         id1  2015          2          3        1
1         id1  2016          5          6        4
2         id2  2015          8          9        7
3         id2  2016         11         12       10