How to select all rows which contain values greater than a threshold?

Question

The request is simple: I want to select all rows which contain a value greater than a threshold.

If I do it like this:

df[(df > threshold)]

I get these rows, but values below that threshold are simply NaN. How do I avoid selecting these rows?

Answer 1

There is absolutely no need for the double transposition - you can simply call any along the column index (supplying 1 or 'columns') on your Boolean matrix.

df[(df > threshold).any(1)]

Example

>>> df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(0, 100, 50).reshape(5, 10))

>>> df

    0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9
0  45  53  89  63  62  96  29  56  42   6
1   0  74  41  97  45  46  38  39   0  49
2  37   2  55  68  16  14  93  14  71  84
3  67  45  79  75  27  94  46  43   7  40
4  61  65  73  60  67  83  32  77  33  96

>>> df[(df > 95).any(1)]

    0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9
0  45  53  89  63  62  96  29  56  42   6
1   0  74  41  97  45  46  38  39   0  49
4  61  65  73  60  67  83  32  77  33  96

Transposing as your self-answer does is just an unnecessary performance hit.

df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randint(0, 100, 10**8).reshape(10**4, 10**4))

# standard way
%timeit df[(df > 95).any(1)]
1 loop, best of 3: 8.48 s per loop

# transposing
%timeit df[df.T[(df.T > 95)].any()]
1 loop, best of 3: 13 s per loop

Answer 2

This is actually very simple:

df[df.T[(df.T > 0.33)].any()]