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import pandas as pd | |
import re | |
# I had to read in the release data, and specify the column names beforehand | |
# so that Pandas would understands how many columns we should see in the data | |
# and what to call them. | |
release = pd.read_csv(input, | |
usecols= column_names).rename( | |
columns= | |
{'IDNO': 'idno', | |
'Name': 'name', | |
'DATE_OF_RELEASE': 'date_of_release', | |
'ReleaseType': 'release_type', | |
'GENDER': 'gender', | |
'RACE': 'race', | |
'DOB': 'dob', | |
'AGE_AT_RELEASE': 'age_at_release', | |
'OFFSET_AGE_AT_RELEASE': 'offset_age_at_release'}) | |
# The names had strange spacing and punctuation. | |
# I had to clean them up to then mege them with the voter data. | |
release['name'] = release['name'].astype(str) | |
release['name'] = release.name.str.replace(',', '') | |
# We had the fullname as a single string with '\s+' characters | |
# so I replaced those will regular spaces to then .split on them to get them into three | |
# separate columns. | |
release['release_fullname_clean'] = release.name.apply(lambda x: re.sub('\s+', ' ', x)) | |
names = release['release_fullname_clean'].str.split(' ', expand = True)[[0, 1, 2]] | |
names.columns = ['release_firstname', 'release_lastname', 'release_middlename'] | |
# I then merged those new name columns back into my release dataset. | |
release = pd.concat([release, names], axis = 1) # merge names df with clean first, middle and last names | |
# to release df | |
release['date_of_release'] = pd.to_datetime(release.date_of_release) # transform into datetime to match with date in voter file | |
# In this case, the ages of release are spread in three different columns. | |
# we fill empties in the `offset` with `dob` | |
# and then fill age at release with the combination | |
# of the previous two columns | |
release['age_at_release_clean'] = release.age_at_release.fillna(release.offset_age_at_release.fillna(release.dob)) # the age of release appears in two seaprate columns | |
# Lastly, I set the age at release to an integer type. | |
release['age_at_release_clean'] = release.age_at_release_clean.astype(int) | |
release.to_csv(output, index = False) # output | |
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import pandas as pd | |
import re | |
releases = pd.read_csv(input) | |
voters = pd.read_csv(input2) | |
deduped_voter = voters[~voters.duplicated()] | |
df = releases.merge(deduped_voter, | |
left_on = ['release_fullname'], | |
right_on = ['voter_fullname'], how = 'inner') | |
df = df[df['dob_clean'] == df['birth_date']] | |
df.to_csv(output, index = False) |
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