Use groupby and merge to create new column in pandas

Question

So I have a pandas dataframe that looks something like this.

    name  is_something
0   a     0
1   b     1
2   c     0
3   c     1
4   a     1
5   b     0
6   a     1
7   c     0
8   a     1

Is there a way to use groupby and merge to create a new column that gives the number of times a name appears with an is_something value of 1 in the whole dataframe? The updated dataframe would look like this:

    name  is_something no_of_times_is_something_is_1
0   a     0            3
1   b     1            1
2   c     0            1
3   c     1            1
4   a     1            3
5   b     0            1
6   a     1            3
7   c     0            1  
8   a     1            3

I know you can just loop through the dataframe to do this but I'm looking for a more efficient way because the dataset I'm working with is quite large. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If there are only 0 and 1 values in is_something column only use sum with GroupBy.transform for new column filled by aggregate values:

df['new'] = df.groupby('name')['is_something'].transform('sum')
print (df)
  name  is_something  new
0    a             0    3
1    b             1    1
2    c             0    1
3    c             1    1
4    a             1    3
5    b             0    1
6    a             1    3
7    c             0    1
8    a             1    3

If possible multiple values first compare by 1, convert to integer and then use transform with sum:

df['new'] = df['is_something'].eq(1).view('i1').groupby(df['name']).transform('sum')