Pandas Query re Deprecation of groupby.agg() with a dictionary when renaming

Code Sample, a copy-pastable example if possible

# Your code here
df = pd.DataFrame({'City':['LA', 'NYC', 'NYC', 'LA', 'Chicago', 'NYC'],
       'isFraud':[1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1]})

df.groupby(df['City'])['isFraud'].agg({'Fraud':sum, 'Non-Fraud': lambda x: len(x)-sum(x), 'Squared': lambda x: (sum(x))**2})

Problem description

I just learnt using a dictionary for renaming in agg is going to be deprecated in the latest version. My question is what's the alternative to achieve the above, i.e. using multiple lambda functions within agg?

Expected Output

         Non-Fraud  Fraud  Squared
City                              
Chicago          1      0        0
LA               0      2        4
NYC              2      1        1

Output of pd.show_versions()

# Paste the output here pd.show_versions() here

Comment From: jorisvandenbossche

See the what's new docs for some pointers as alternatives using renaming afterwards: http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/whatsnew.html#deprecate-groupby-agg-with-a-dictionary-when-renaming (although it will be a bit more convoluted)

Another option is have 'named' functions instead of lambda's:

In [14]: def Fraud(group):
    ...:     return group.sum()
    ...: 

In [15]: def NonFraud(group):
    ...:     return len(group)-sum(group)
    ...: 

In [16]: def Squared(group):
    ...:     return (sum(group))**2
    ...: 

In [20]: df.groupby(df['City'])['isFraud'].agg([Fraud, NonFraud, Squared])
Out[20]: 
         Fraud  NonFraud  Squared
City                             
Chicago      0         1        0
LA           2         0        4
NYC          1         2        1

Comment From: jreback

Another way, which I personally would do (this will also be more performant)

In [18]: df = pd.DataFrame({'City':['LA', 'NYC', 'NYC', 'LA', 'Chicago', 'NYC'],
    ...:        'isFraud':[1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1]})
    ...: 
    ...: result = df.groupby(df['City'])['isFraud'].agg(['sum', 'size'])
    ...: result = pd.DataFrame({'Fraud': result['sum'], 
    ...:                        'NonFraud': result['size']-result['sum'], 
    ...:                        'Squared': result['sum']**2})
    ...: result
    ...: 
    ...: 
    ...: 
    ...: 
Out[18]: 
         Fraud  NonFraud  Squared
City                             
Chicago      0         1        0
LA           2         0        4
NYC          1         2        1

Comment From: allen-q

Thanks @jorisvandenbossche and @jreback for your answers. It seems there is no short alternative way to do this in one line. It's sad to see such a handy feature to get removed.

Comment From: bridwell

So it looks like using a list of tuples, rather than a dict, is still supported?

df.groupby(df['City'])['isFraud'].agg([
    ('Fraud', sum),
    ('Non-Fraud', lambda x: len(x)-sum(x)),
    ('Squared', lambda x: (sum(x))**2)
])
        Fraud   Non-Fraud   Squared
City            
Chicago     0           1          0
LA          2           0          4
NYC         1           2          1

This even looks to be supported when applying different functions to different columns, similar to the dict approach:

df['severity'] = np.arange(len(df))

df.groupby(df['City']).agg({
    'isFraud': [
        ('Fraud', sum),
        ('Non-Fraud', lambda x: len(x)-sum(x)),
        ('Squared', lambda x: (sum(x))**2)
    ], 
    'severity': [('avg severity', 'mean')]    
})
            isFraud                         severity
        Fraud   Non-Fraud   Squared     avg severity
City                
Chicago     0    1          0           4.000000
LA          2    0          4           1.500000
NYC         1    2          1           2.666667

Will that continue to be supported?

Comment From: randomgambit

^^ this is even what is recommended in wes's last Pandas book. a bit confusing indeed

Comment From: GuiMarthe

How is the deprecation status of the tuple naming method that @bridwell mentions? Will it continue to be supported?

Comment From: eliadl

How does the documentation account for @bridwell's non-warning example? Please clarify in the documentation and add more examples as needed.