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How to map two dataframe with output of overlapping items in new columns?

I have two dataframes:

data = {
    'values': ['Cricket', 'Soccer', 'Football', 'Tennis', 'Badminton', 'Chess'],
    'gems': ['A1K, A2M, JA3, AN4', 'B1, A1, Bn2, B3', 'CD1, A1', 'KWS, KQM', 'JP, CVK', 'KF, GF']  
}
df1 = pd.DataFrame(data)

df1

    values       gems
0   Cricket      A1K, A2M, JA3, AN4
1   Soccer       B1, A1, Bn2, B3
2   Football     CD1, A1
3   Tennis       KWS, KQM
4   Badminton    JP, CVK
5   Chess        KF, GF

second dataframe

data2 = {
    '1C': ['B1', 'K1', 'A1K', 'J1', 'A4'],
    '02C': ['Bn2', 'B3', 'JK', 'ZZ', 'ko'],
    '34C': ['KF', 'CD1', 'B3','ji', 'HU']
}
df2 = pd.DataFrame(data2)

df2

    1C  02C 34C
0   B1  Bn2 KF
1   K1  B3  CD1
2   A1K JK  B3
3   J1  ZZ  ji
4   A4  ko  HU

I want check items in df1['gems'] in each column of df2 and represent their counts and overlapping items. The expected output is:

    values    gems                  1C  1CGroup   02C   02CGroup    34C 34CGroup
0   Cricket   A1K, A2M, JA3, AN4    1   A1K       0     NA          0   NA
1   Soccer    B1, A1, Bn2, B3       1   Bn2       2     Bn2, B3     1   B3
2   Football  CD1, A1               0   NA        0     NA          1   CD1
3   Tennis    KWS, KQM              0   NA        0     NA          0   NA
4   Badminton JP, CVK               0   NA        0     NA          0   NA
5   Chess     KF, GF                0   NA        0     NA          1   KF
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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first str.split and explode the column gems and reset_index to keep the original index. Then for each column of df2, merge with the exploded gems, groupby the original index and do both the count and the aggregation as you want with join. pd.concat the merges for each column and join to your original df1. fillna the count columns with 0 as shown in the expected output.

# one row per gem used in the merge
df_ = df1['gems'].str.split(', ').explode().reset_index()

res = (
    df1.join( #can join to df1 as we keep the original index value
        pd.concat([df_.merge(df2[[col]], left_on='gems', right_on=col)
                      .groupby('index') # original index in df1
                      [col].agg(**{col: 'count', # do each aggregation
                                   f'{col}Group':lambda x: ', '.join(x)}) 
                   for col in df2.columns], # do it for each column of df2
                  axis=1))
        .fillna({col:0 for col in df2.columns}) #fill the count columns with 0
)
print(res)
      values                gems   1C 1CGroup  02C 02CGroup  34C 34CGroup
0    Cricket  A1K, A2M, JA3, AN4  1.0     A1K  0.0      NaN  0.0      NaN
1     Soccer     B1, A1, Bn2, B3  1.0      B1  2.0  Bn2, B3  1.0       B3
2   Football             CD1, A1  0.0     NaN  0.0      NaN  1.0      CD1
3     Tennis            KWS, KQM  0.0     NaN  0.0      NaN  0.0      NaN
4  Badminton             JP, CVK  0.0     NaN  0.0      NaN  0.0      NaN
5      Chess              KF, GF  0.0     NaN  0.0      NaN  1.0       KF
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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First create a table of your groups:

df3 = (pd.merge(df1['gems'].str.split(',\s+').explode().reset_index(),
                df2.unstack().reset_index(level=0),
                left_on='gems', right_on=0, how='left'
               )
         .pivot_table(index='index',
                      columns=['level_0'],
                      values='gems',
                      aggfunc=list)
      )

output:

level_0        02C     1C    34C
index                           
0              NaN  [A1K]    NaN
1        [Bn2, B3]   [B1]   [B3]
2              NaN    NaN  [CD1]
5              NaN    NaN   [KF]

Then produce the counts and concatenate everything with the original table:

pd.concat([df1,
           pd.concat([df3.add_suffix('Group').applymap(lambda x: ','.join(x) if isinstance(x, list) else x),
                      df3.fillna('').applymap(len)],
                     axis=1).sort_index(axis=1)
          ], axis=1)

output:

      values                gems  02C 02CGroup   1C 1CGroup  34C 34CGroup
0    Cricket  A1K, A2M, JA3, AN4  0.0      NaN  1.0     A1K  0.0      NaN
1     Soccer     B1, A1, Bn2, B3  2.0  Bn2, B3  1.0      B1  1.0       B3
2   Football             CD1, A1  0.0      NaN  0.0     NaN  1.0      CD1
3     Tennis            KWS, KQM  NaN      NaN  NaN     NaN  NaN      NaN
4  Badminton             JP, CVK  NaN      NaN  NaN     NaN  NaN      NaN
5      Chess              KF, GF  0.0      NaN  0.0     NaN  1.0       KF

edit: alternative for the string join and count

df3 = (pd.merge(df1['gems'].str.split(',\s+').explode().reset_index(),
                df2.unstack().reset_index(level=0),
                left_on='gems', right_on=0, how='left'
               )
         .pivot_table(index='index',
                      columns=['level_0'],
                      values='gems',
                      aggfunc=', '.join)
      )

pd.concat([df1,
           pd.concat([df3.add_suffix('Group'),
                      df3.applymap(lambda x: x.count(',')+1 if isinstance(x, str) else 0)],
                     axis=1).sort_index(axis=1)
          ], axis=1)
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report

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Solution with findall

For each column in df2, find all the occurrences of the column value in the gems column of df1, then map with len to count the occurrences and optionally join with str.join

for c in df2.columns:
    s = df1['gems'].str.findall('|'.join(df2[c]))

    df1[c] = s.map(len)
    df1[c + 'group'] = s.str.join(', ')

print(df1)

      values                gems  1C 1Cgroup  02C 02Cgroup  34C 34Cgroup
0    Cricket  A1K, A2M, JA3, AN4   1     A1K    0             0         
1     Soccer     B1, A1, Bn2, B3   1      B1    2  Bn2, B3    1       B3
2   Football             CD1, A1   0            0             1      CD1
3     Tennis            KWS, KQM   0            0             0         
4  Badminton             JP, CVK   0            0             0         
5      Chess              KF, GF   0            0             1       KF
over 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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