Using pandas to efficiently read in a large CSV file without crashing
You should consider using the chunksize
parameter in read_csv
when reading in your dataframe, because it returns a TextFileReader
object you can then pass to pd.concat
to concatenate your chunks.
chunksize = 100000
tfr = pd.read_csv('./movielens/ratings.csv', chunksize=chunksize, iterator=True)
df = pd.concat(tfr, ignore_index=True)
If you just want to process each chunk individually, use,
chunksize = 20000
for chunk in pd.read_csv('./movielens/ratings.csv',
chunksize=chunksize,
iterator=True):
do_something_with_chunk(chunk)
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Updated on June 30, 2022Comments
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Developer almost 2 years
I am trying to read a .csv file called ratings.csv from http://grouplens.org/datasets/movielens/20m/ the file is 533.4MB in my computer.
This is what am writing in jupyter notebook
import pandas as pd ratings = pd.read_cv('./movielens/ratings.csv', sep=',')
The problem from here is the kernel would break or die and ask me to restart and its keeps repeating the same. There is no any error. Please can you suggest any alternative of solving this, it is as if my computer has no capability of running this.
This works but it keeps rewriting
chunksize = 20000 for ratings in pd.read_csv('./movielens/ratings.csv', chunksize=chunksize): ratings.append(ratings) ratings.head()
Only the last chunk is written others are written-off
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Developer over 6 yearsI have tried this though its not crashing but the kernel run for more than 40 mins without terminating.... and I just cancelled it. How long should I expect for 20M records to be read?
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cs95 over 6 years@Developer Increased chunksize and set iterator=True. Try it again.
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Developer over 6 yearsCan you please assist with that edits. It is fast but I have failed to append data every time it is written @cOLDsLEEP
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Developer over 6 yearsStill there is an issue now its only take the first chunk, other chunks are not recorded, there are 20M data but that method will only keep 20K data, only the first chunk @cOLDsLEEP
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cs95 over 6 years@Developer I would refer you to this: stackoverflow.com/questions/33642951/…
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cs95 over 6 years