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Count most frequent 100 words from sentences in Dataframe Pandas

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I have text reviews in one column in Pandas dataframe and I want to count the N-most frequent words with their frequency counts (in whole column - NOT in single cell). One approach is Counting the words using a counter, by iterating through each row. Is there a better alternative?

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0    a heartening tale of small victories and endu 1    no sophomore slump for director sam mendes  w 2    if you are an actor who can relate to the sea 3    it's this memory-as-identity obviation that g 4    boyd's screenplay ( co-written with guardian 
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swati saoji Avatar asked Apr 27 '15 18:04

swati saoji


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from collections import Counter Counter(" ".join(df["text"]).split()).most_common(100) 

im pretty sure would give you what you want (you might have to remove some non-words from the counter result before calling most_common)

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Joran Beasley Avatar answered Oct 16 '22 14:10

Joran Beasley