pandas add column to groupby dataframe

Use transform to add a column back to the orig df from a groupby aggregation, transform returns a Series with its index aligned to the orig df:

In [123]:
g = df.groupby('c')['type'].value_counts().reset_index(name="t")
g['size'] = df.groupby('c')['type'].transform('size')
g

Out[123]:
   c type  t  size
0  1    m  1     3
1  1    n  1     3
2  1    o  1     3
3  2    m  2     4
4  2    n  2     4

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