1. 提取文件中的时区并计数

有三种写法，虽然常用的是pandas，其实collections做起来也很快。
1.1 纯Python代码，提取并统计时区信息
1.2. 纯Python代码，应用collections.Counter()模块简写
1.3 用pandas处理，并用matplotlib.pyplot画图

1.1 纯Python代码，提取并统计时区信息

1. 从文件中提取时区信息并变为列表
2. 计算每个时区出现次数
3. 排序并打印出现次数最高的n个时区。

# Uses Python3.6

import json

# extract the timezones from the file

path = 'usagov_bitly_data2012-03-16-1331923249.txt'
records = [json.loads(line) for line in open(path)]
time_zones = [rec['tz'] for rec in records if 'tz' in rec]

# count the timezones appearance

def get_counts(sequence):
    counts = dict()
    for x in sequence:
        counts[x] = counts.get(x,0) + 1
    return counts

counts = get_counts(time_zones)

# compute and print the top appearance of the timezones and their counts. 

def top_counts(count_dict, a ):
    n = int(a)
    value_key_pairs = [(count,tz) for tz,count in count_dict.items()]
    value_key_pairs.sort()
    return value_key_pairs[-n:]

print(top_counts(counts,3))

#output 
[(400, 'America/Chicago'), (521, ''), (1251, 'America/New_York')]

1.2. 纯Python代码，应用collections.Counter()模块简写

用collections.Counters就能一键计数啦，十分方便。

import json
from collections import Counter

# extract the timezones from the file

path = 'usagov_bitly_data2012-03-16-1331923249.txt'
records = [json.loads(line) for line in open(path)]
time_zones = [rec['tz'] for rec in records if 'tz' in rec]

# count the timezones appearance

counts = Counter(time_zones)

# compute and print the top appearance of the timezones and their counts. 

print(counts.most_common(3))

1.3 用pandas处理，并用matplotlib.pyplot画图

# Input, uses python 3.6

import json
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

path = 'usagov_bitly_data2012-03-16-1331923249.txt'
records = [json.loads(line) for line in open(path)]

# counts the appearance of the timezone
frame = pd.DataFrame(records)
clean_tz = frame['tz'].fillna('Missing')
clean_tz[clean_tz == ''] = 'Unknown'
tz_counts = clean_tz.value_counts()
print(tz_counts[:10])

# plot it and shows it 
tz_counts[:10].plot(kind='barh',rot=0)
plt.show()

# Output 
America/New_York       1251
Unknown                 521
America/Chicago         400
America/Los_Angeles     382
America/Denver          191
Missing                 120
Europe/London            74
Asia/Tokyo               37
Pacific/Honolulu         36
Europe/Madrid            35
Name: tz, dtype: int64

pandas-timezone.png

学习总结：

1. 取信息并组成列表，可以用[ ]并在其中有简单的循环和条件判断操作。
2. 重用的代码段写为函数，方便调用。
3. 如果没接触过collections ，可以看我的总结 如何使用python3 的 collections 模块/库, Container datatypes

参考内容：

1. 《利用python进行数据分析》Wes McKinney

2. 示例代码在github上。
   https://github.com/wesm/pydata-book
   可以下载个zip包到本地看，也可以用git clone下来。
   pydata-book-2nd-edition.zip