python - Pandas: reshaping data

Question

I have a pandas Series which presently looks like this:

14    [Yellow, Pizza, Restaurants]
...
160920                  [Automotive, Auto Parts & Supplies]
160921       [Lighting Fixtures & Equipment, Home Services]
160922                 [Food, Pizza, Candy Stores]
160923           [Hair Removal, Nail Salons, Beauty & Spas]
160924           [Hair Removal, Nail Salons, Beauty & Spas]

And I want to radically reshape it into a dataframe that looks something like this...

      Yellow  Automotive  Pizza
14       1         0        1
…           
160920   0         1        0
160921   0         0        0
160922   0         0        1
160923   0         0        0
160924   0         0        0

ie. a logical construction noting which categories each observation(row) falls into.

I'm capable of writing for loop based code to tackle the problem, but given the large number of rows I need to handle, that's going to be very slow.

Does anyone know a vectorised solution to this kind of problem? I'd be very grateful.

EDIT: there are 509 categories, which I do have a list of.

Answer 1

In [9]: s = Series([list('ABC'),list('DEF'),list('ABEF')])

In [10]: s
Out[10]: 
0       [A, B, C]
1       [D, E, F]
2    [A, B, E, F]
dtype: object

In [11]: s.apply(lambda x: Series(1,index=x)).fillna(0)
Out[11]: 
   A  B  C  D  E  F
0  1  1  1  0  0  0
1  0  0  0  1  1  1
2  1  1  0  0  1  1