JSON to pandas DataFrame

Question

What I am trying to do is extract elevation data from a google maps API along a path specified by latitude and longitude coordinates as follows:

from urllib2         


        

Answer 1

Once you have the flattened DataFrame obtained by the accepted answer, you can make the columns a MultiIndex ("fancy multiline header") like this:

df.columns = pd.MultiIndex.from_tuples([tuple(c.split('.')) for c in df.columns])

Answer 2

Here is small utility class that converts JSON to DataFrame and back: Hope you find this helpful.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from pandas.io.json import json_normalize

class DFConverter:

    #Converts the input JSON to a DataFrame
    def convertToDF(self,dfJSON):
        return(json_normalize(dfJSON))

    #Converts the input DataFrame to JSON 
    def convertToJSON(self, df):
        resultJSON = df.to_json(orient='records')
        return(resultJSON)

Answer 3

Check this snip out.

# reading the JSON data using json.load()
file = 'data.json'
with open(file) as train_file:
    dict_train = json.load(train_file)

# converting json dataset from dictionary to dataframe
train = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(dict_train, orient='index')
train.reset_index(level=0, inplace=True)

Hope it helps :)

Answer 4

Just a new version of the accepted answer, as python3.x does not support urllib2

from requests import request
import json
from pandas.io.json import json_normalize

path1 = '42.974049,-81.205203|42.974298,-81.195755'
response=request(url='http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/elevation/json?locations='+path1+'&sensor=false', method='get')
elevations = response.json()
elevations
data = json.loads(elevations)
json_normalize(data['results'])

Answer 5

#Use the small trick to make the data json interpret-able
#Since your data is not directly interpreted by json.loads()

>>> import json
>>> f=open("sampledata.txt","r+")
>>> data = f.read()
>>> for x in data.split("\n"):
...     strlist = "["+x+"]"
...     datalist=json.loads(strlist)
...     for y in datalist:
...             print(type(y))
...             print(y)
...
...
<type 'dict'>
{u'0': [[10.8, 36.0], {u'10': 0, u'1': 0, u'0': 0, u'3': 0, u'2': 0, u'5': 0, u'4': 0, u'7': 0, u'6': 0, u'9': 0, u'8': 0}]}
<type 'dict'>
{u'1': [[10.8, 36.1], {u'10': 0, u'1': 0, u'0': 0, u'3': 0, u'2': 0, u'5': 0, u'4': 0, u'7': 0, u'6': 0, u'9': 0, u'8': 0}]}
<type 'dict'>
{u'2': [[10.8, 36.2], {u'10': 0, u'1': 0, u'0': 0, u'3': 0, u'2': 0, u'5': 0, u'4': 0, u'7': 0, u'6': 0, u'9': 0, u'8': 0}]}
<type 'dict'>
{u'3': [[10.8, 36.300000000000004], {u'10': 0, u'1': 0, u'0': 0, u'3': 0, u'2': 0, u'5': 0, u'4': 0, u'7': 0, u'6': 0, u'9': 0, u'8': 0}]}
<type 'dict'>
{u'4': [[10.8, 36.4], {u'10': 0, u'1': 0, u'0': 0, u'3': 0, u'2': 0, u'5': 0, u'4': 0, u'7': 0, u'6': 0, u'9': 0, u'8': 0}]}
<type 'dict'>
{u'5': [[10.8, 36.5], {u'10': 0, u'1': 0, u'0': 0, u'3': 0, u'2': 0, u'5': 0, u'4': 0, u'7': 0, u'6': 0, u'9': 0, u'8': 0}]}
<type 'dict'>
{u'6': [[10.8, 36.6], {u'10': 0, u'1': 0, u'0': 0, u'3': 0, u'2': 0, u'5': 0, u'4': 0, u'7': 0, u'6': 0, u'9': 0, u'8': 0}]}
<type 'dict'>
{u'7': [[10.8, 36.7], {u'10': 0, u'1': 0, u'0': 0, u'3': 0, u'2': 0, u'5': 0, u'4': 0, u'7': 0, u'6': 0, u'9': 0, u'8': 0}]}
<type 'dict'>
{u'8': [[10.8, 36.800000000000004], {u'1': 0, u'0': 0, u'3': 0, u'2': 0, u'5': 0, u'4': 0, u'7': 0, u'6': 0, u'9': 0, u'8': 0}]}
<type 'dict'>
{u'9': [[10.8, 36.9], {u'1': 0, u'0': 0, u'3': 0, u'2': 0, u'5': 0, u'4': 0, u'7': 0, u'6': 0, u'9': 0, u'8': 0}]}