Separate multiple variables in same column

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I have a dataset that looks as following:

Date Time Variable Unit Value
05-02-2021 10:00:00 Freq Mhz 10
05-02-2021 10:00:10 Freq Mhz 13
05-02-2021 10:00:20 Freq Mhz 12
05-02-2021 10:00:30 Freq Mhz 15
05-02-2021 10:00:40 Freq Mhz 11
05-02-2021 10:00:50 Freq Mhz 13
05-02-2021 10:01:00 Freq Mhz 11
05-02-2021 10:00:00 Distance m 102
05-02-2021 10:00:20 Distance m 107
05-02-2021 10:00:30 Distance m 110
05-02-2021 10:00:40 Distance m 108
05-02-2021 10:00:50 Distance m 104
05-02-2021 10:01:00 Distance m 107
etc etc etc etc etc

So I have the variables and its corresponding units are in the same column, however I would like them formatted differently. The time interval at which the different variables (Mhz, Distance) are measured is the same (every 10 seconds), although I would like an option independent of this.

I would like my data to look like the following, so it is easier to work with:

DateTime Frequency-Mhz Distance-m
05-02-2021 10:00:00 10 102
05-02-2021 10:00:10 13 107
05-02-2021 10:00:20 12 110
05-02-2021 10:00:30 15 108
05-02-2021 10:00:40 11 104
05-02-2021 10:00:50 13 102
05-02-2021 10:01:00 11 107

So far, I have tried various solutions with pd.pitvot_tables, but to no avail. I get close to the solution but not quite yet. I have also tried solutions with .melt or .groupby to built a entire new dataframe, but these are failed.

df['datetime'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Date'] + " " + df['Time'])
df.pivot_table(index=['datetime'], columns='Variable', values='Value')
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1 Answers

You are close, need join columns and then convert Value to numeric, if not matched return NaNs:

df['datetime'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Date'] + " " + df['Time'])
df['Variable'] = df['Variable'] + "-" + df['Unit']

df['Value'] = pd.to_numeric(df['Value'], errors='coerce')

df.pivot(index='datetime', columns='Variable', values='Value')

If possible duplication in datetime with Variable use:

df.pivot_table(index='datetime', columns='Variable', values='Value')
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