Questions tagged [frequency]
The rate at which a thing occurs or is found.
                                	
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    Count the frequency that a value occurs in a dataframe column
                I have a dataset
category
cat a
cat b
cat a
I'd like to return something like the following which shows the unique values and their frequencies
category   freq 
cat a       2
cat b       1
            
        
       
    
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    How to count the frequency of the elements in an unordered list? [duplicate]
                Given an unordered list of values like
a = [5, 1, 2, 2, 4, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 1, 5, 2]
How can I get the frequency of each value that appears in the list, like so?
# `a` has 4 instances of `1`, 4 of `2`, ...
            
        
       
    
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    Relative frequencies / proportions with dplyr
                Suppose I want to calculate the proportion of different values within each group. For example, using the mtcars data, how do I calculate the relative frequency of number of gears by am (automatic/...
            
        
       
    
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    What values are valid in Pandas 'Freq' tags?
                I am trying to use date_range. I came across some values valid for freq, like BME and BMS and I would like to be able to quickly look up the proper strings to get what I want.
What values are valid in ...
            
        
       
    
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    Getting the count of unique values in a column in bash
                I have tab delimited files with several columns. I want to count the frequency of occurrence of the different values in a column for all the files in a folder and sort them in decreasing order of ...
            
        
       
    
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    How can I compute a histogram (frequency table) for a single Series?
                How can I generate a frequency table (or histogram) for a single Series? For example, if I have my_series = pandas.Series([1,2,2,3,3,3]), how can I get a result like {1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3} - that is, a ...
            
        
       
    
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    python equivalent of R table
                I have a list 
[[12, 6], [12, 0], [0, 6], [12, 0], [12, 0], [6, 0], [12, 6], [0, 6], [12, 0], [0, 6], [0, 6], [12, 0], [0, 6], [6, 0], [6, 0], [12, 0], [6, 0], [12, 0], [12, 0], [0, 6], [0, 6], [12, ...
            
        
       
    
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    Count frequency of words in a list and sort by frequency
                I am using Python 3.3
I need to create two lists, one for the unique words and the other for the frequencies of the word.
I have to sort the unique word list based on the frequencies list so that ...
            
        
       
    
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    Item frequency count in Python
                Assume I have a list of words, and I want to find the number of times each word appears in that list.
An obvious way to do this is:
words = "apple banana apple strawberry banana lemon"
uniques = set(...
            
        
       
    
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    How to get the number of the most frequent value in a column?
                I have a data frame and I would like to know how many times a given column has the most frequent value.
I try to do it in the following way:
items_counts = df['item'].value_counts()
max_item = ...
            
        
       
    
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    How to count how many values per level in a given factor?
                I have a data.frame mydf with about 2500 rows. These rows correspond to 69 classes of objects in colum 1 mydf$V1, and I want to count how many rows per object class I have.
I can get a factor of these ...
            
        
       
    
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    How to find most common elements of a list? [duplicate]
                Given the following list
['Jellicle', 'Cats', 'are', 'black', 'and', 'white,', 'Jellicle', 'Cats', 
 'are', 'rather', 'small;', 'Jellicle', 'Cats', 'are', 'merry', 'and', 
 'bright,', 'And', '...
            
        
       
    
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    Getting frequency values from histogram in R
                I know how to draw histograms or other frequency/percentage related tables.
But now I want to know, how can I get those frequency values in a table to use after the fact.
I have a massive dataset, ...
            
        
       
    
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    Python library for playing fixed-frequency sound
                I have a mosquito problem in my house. This wouldn't usually concern a programmers' community; However, I've seen some devices that claim to deter these nasty creatures by playing a 17Khz tone. I ...
            
        
       
    
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    How to use dplyr to generate a frequency table
                I like to create a table that has the frequency of several columns in my data frame. I am copying part of my data frame below. 
The table is supposed to have frequency (both n and %) of "red" in ...
            
        
       
    
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    Python frequency detection
                Ok what im trying to do is a kind of audio processing software that can detect a prevalent frequency an if the frequency is played for long enough (few ms) i know i got a positive match. i know i ...
            
        
       
    
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    Android audio FFT to retrieve specific frequency magnitude using audiorecord
                I am currently trying to implement some code using Android to detect when a number of specific audio frequency ranges are played through the phone's microphone. I have set up the class using the ...
            
        
       
    
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    Graphing the pitch (frequency) of a sound
                I want to plot the pitch of a sound into a graph.
Currently I can plot the amplitude. The graph below is created by the data returned by getUnscaledAmplitude():
AudioInputStream audioInputStream = ...
            
        
       
    
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    Bash script to find the frequency of every letter in a file
                I am trying to find out the frequency of appearance of every letter in the english alphabet in an input file. How can I do this in a bash script?
            
        
       
    
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    Java equivalent of C# system.beep?
                I am working on a Java program, and I really need to be able to play a sound by a certain frequency and duration, similarly to the c# method System.Beep, I know how to use it in C#, but I can't find a ...
            
        
       
    
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    Setting a relative frequency in a matplotlib histogram
                I have data as a list of floats and I want to plot it as a histogram. Hist() function does the job perfectly for plotting the absolute histogram. However, I cannot figure out how to represent it in a ...
            
        
       
    
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    How to generate a frequency table in R with with cumulative frequency and relative frequency
                I'm new with R. I need to generate a simple Frequency Table (as in books) with cumulative frequency and relative frequency.
So I want to generate from some simple data like 
> x
[1] 17 17 17 17 ...
            
        
       
    
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    Python - Is a dictionary slow to find frequency of each character?
                I am trying to find a frequency of each symbol in any given text using an algorithm of O(n) complexity. My algorithm looks like:
s = len(text) 
P = 1.0/s 
freqs = {} 
for char in text: 
    try: 
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    Sort list by frequency
                Is there any way in Python, wherein I can sort a list by its frequency?
For example,  
[1,2,3,4,3,3,3,6,7,1,1,9,3,2]
the above list would be sorted in the order of the frequency of its values to ...
            
        
       
    
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    Show frequencies along with barplot in ggplot2
                I'm trying to display frequencies within barplot ... well, I want them somewhere in the graph: under the bars, within bars, above bars or in the legend area. And I recall (I may be wrong) that it can ...
            
        
       
    
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    NLTK tokenize - faster way?
                I have a method that takes in a String parameter, and uses NLTK to break the String down to sentences, then into words. Afterwards, it converts each word into lowercase, and finally creates a ...
            
        
       
    
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    Plot Histogram in Python
                I have two lists, x and y.
x contains the alphabet A-Z and Y contains the frequency of them in a file.
I've tried researching how to plot these values in a histogram but has had no success with ...
            
        
       
    
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    ValueWarning: No frequency information was provided, so inferred frequency MS will be used
                I try to fit Autoregression by sm.tsa.statespace.SARIMAX. But I meet a warning, then I want to set frequency information for this model.
Who used to meet it, can you help me ?
fit1 = sm.tsa....
            
        
       
    
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    android getting sound frequencies real time?
                I have been trying to get the sound frequency(number) in real time using fft and i am having run time errors. can any one help?
package com.example.recordsound;
import edu.emory.mathcs.jtransforms....
            
        
       
    
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    Detecting the fundamental frequency [closed]
                There's this tech-festival in IIT-Bombay, India, where they're having an event called "Artbots" where we're supposed to design artbots with artistic abilities. I had an idea about a musical robot ...
            
        
       
    
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    Most Efficient way to calculate Frequency of values in a Python list?
                I am looking for a fast and efficient way to calculate the frequency of list items in python:
list = ['a','b','a','b', ......]
I want a frequency counter which would give me an output like this:
 [ ...
            
        
       
    
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    Determine frequency from signal data in MATLAB
                I have data from a sensor and I need to find the frequency of it. It looks like fft() seems to be the way to go, but the MATLAB docs only show how to get a graph of the frequencies, I don't know what ...
            
        
       
    
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    Split multiple delimiters in Java [closed]
                How I can split the sentences with respect to the delimiters in the string and count the frequency of words ?
 String delimiters = "\t,;.?!-:@[](){}_*/";
My text file is:
Billy_Reeves
Smorz
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    C# Why are timer frequencies extremely off?
                Both System.Timers.Timer and System.Threading.Timer fire at intervals that are considerable different from the requested ones.
For example:
new System.Timers.Timer(1000d / 20);
yields a timer that ...
            
        
       
    
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    How to get the most frequent row in table
                How to get the most frequent row in a DataFrame?
For example, if I have the following table:
   col_1  col_2 col_3
0      1      1     A
1      1      0     A
2      0      1     A
3      1      1     ...
            
        
       
    
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    Explain the FFT to me
                I want to take audio PCM data and find peaks in it.  Specifically, I want to return the frequency and time at which a peak occurs.
My understanding of this is that I have to take the PCM data and ...
            
        
       
    
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    Divide each each cell of large matrix by sum of its row
                I have a site by species matrix. The dimensions are 375 x 360. Each value represents the frequency of a species in samples of that site.
I am trying to convert this matrix from frequencies to ...
            
        
       
    
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    Calculating Entropy
                I've tried for several hours to calculate the Entropy and I know I'm missing something. Hopefully someone here can give me an idea!
EDIT: I think my formula is wrong!
CODE:
 info <- function(...
            
        
       
    
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    Python - Finding word frequencies of list of words in text file
                I am trying to speed up my project to count word frequencies. I have 360+ text files, and I need to get the total number of words and the number of times each word from another list of words appears. ...
            
        
       
    
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    How often should sp_updatestats be called?
                A question of mine which dealt with a slowly executing query introduced me to the sp_updatestats() function. I want to take pro-active steps to call it on a regular basis rather that wait for my ...
            
        
       
    
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    Determining Word Frequency of Specific Terms
                I'm a non-computer science student doing a history thesis that involves determining the frequency of specific terms in a number of texts and then plotting these frequencies over time to determine ...
            
        
       
    
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    iOS FFT Accerelate.framework draw spectrum during playback
                UPDATE 2016-03-15
Please take a look at this project: https://github.com/ooper-shlab/aurioTouch2.0-Swift. It has been ported to Swift and contains every answer you're looking for, if you cam here.
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    Swift FFT - Complex split issue
                I am trying to perform FFT on an audio file to find frequency using the Accelerate framework. I have adapted code (probably wrong) from this question: Spectrogram from AVAudioPCMBuffer using ...
            
        
       
    
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    Count appearances of a value until it changes to another value
                I have the following DataFrame:
df = pd.DataFrame([10, 10, 23, 23, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 12], columns=['values'])
I want to calculate the frequency of each value, but not an overall count - the ...
            
        
       
    
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    Plot weighted frequency matrix
                This question is related to two different questions I have asked previously: 
1) Reproduce frequency matrix plot
2) Add 95% confidence limits to cumulative plot
I wish to reproduce this plot in R:
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    Elasticsearch word frequency and relations
                I am wondering if it is possible at all to get the top ten most frequent words in an Elasticsearch field across an entire index or alias.
Here is what I'm trying to do:
I am indexing text documents ...
            
        
       
    
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    Make a table of string frequency
                I am trying to make a summary table of many strings. My data looks like this:
x<-c("a", "a", "b", "c", "c", "c", "d")
How would I analyse the recurrence of each string at once? Ideally to produce ...
            
        
       
    
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    How to get top K elements from count-min-sketch?
                I'm reading how the probabilistic data structure count-min-sketch is used in finding the top k elements in a data stream. But I cannot seem to wrap my head around the step where we maintain a heap to ...
            
        
       
    
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    Sorting entire csv by frequency of occurence in one column
                I have a large CSV file, which is a log of caller data.
A short snippet of my file:
CompanyName    High Priority     QualityIssue
Customer1         Yes             User
Customer1         Yes           ...
            
        
       
    
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    Normalizing FFT spectrum magnitude to 0dB
                I'm using FFT to extract the amplitude of each frequency components from an audio file. Actually, there is already a function called Plot Spectrum in Audacity that can help to solve the problem. ...