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How to best calculate average issue age for a range of historic dates (pandas)

Objective:
I need to show the trend in ageing of issues. e.g. for each date in 2021 show the average age of the issues that were open as at that date.
Starting data (Historic issue list):. "df"
ref
Created
resolved
a1
20/4/2021
15/5/2021
a2
21/4/2021
15/6/2021
a3
23/4/2021
15/7/2021
Endpoint: "df2"
Date
Avg_age
1/1/2021
x
2/1/2021
y
3/1/2021
z
where x,y,z are the calculated averages of age for all issues open on the Date.
Tried so far:
I got this to work in what feels like a very poor way.
create a date range (pd.date_range(start,finish,freq="D")
I loop through the dates in this range and for each date I filter the "df" dataframe (boolean filtering) to show only issues live on the date in question. Then calc age (date - created) and average for those. Each result appended to a list.
once done I just convert the list into a series for my final result, which I can then graph or whatever.
hist_dates = pd.date_range(start="2021-01-01",end="2021-12-31"),freq="D")
result_list = []
for each_date in hist_dates:
f1=df.Created < each_date #filter1
f2=df.Resolved >= each_date #filter2
df['Refdate'] = each_date #make column to allow refdate-created
df['Age']= (df.Refdate - df.Created)
results_list.append(df[f1 & f2]).Age.mean())
Problems:
This works, but it feels sloppy and it doesn't seem fast. The current data-set is small, but I suspect this wouldn't scale well. I'm trying not to solve everything with loops as I understand it is a common mistake for beginners like me.

I'll give you two solutions: the first one is step-by-step for you to understand the idea and process, the second one replicates the functionality in a much more condensed way, skipping some intermediate steps
First, create a new column that holds your issue age, i.e. df['age'] = df.resolved - df.Created (I'm assuming your columns are of datetime type, if not, use pd.to_datetime to convert them)
You can then use groupby to group your data by creation date. This will internally slice your dataframe into several pieces, one for each distinct value of Created, grouping all values with the same creation date together. This way, you can then use aggregation on a creation date level to get the average issue age like so
# [['Created', 'age']] selects only the columns you are interested in
df[['Created', 'age']].groupby('Created').mean()
With an additional fourth data point [a4, 2021/4/20, 2021/4/30] (to enable some proper aggregation), this would end up giving you the following Series with the average issue age by creation date:
age
Created
2021-04-20 17 days 12:00:00
2021-04-21 55 days 00:00:00
2021-04-23 83 days 00:00:00
A more condensed way of doing this is by defining a custom function and apply it to each creation date grouping
def issue_age(s: pd.Series):
return (s['resolved'] - s['Created']).mean()
df.groupby('Created').apply(issue_age)
This call will give you the same Series as before.

Assigning a value to the same dates fulfilling a condition in a more efficient way in a dataframe

I have the following dataframe called df1 that contains data for a number of regions in the column NUTS_ID:
The index, called Date has all the days of 2010. That is, for each code in NUTS_ID I have a day of 2010 (all days of the year for AT1, AT2and so on). I created a list containing the dates corresponding to non-workdays and I want to add a column that with 0 for non-workdays and 1 for workdays.
For this, I simply used a for loop that checks day by day if it's in the workday list I created:
for day in df1.index:
if day not in workdays_list:
df1.loc[day,'Workday'] = 0 # Assigning 0 to to non-workdays
else:
df1.loc[day,'Workday'] = 1 # Assigning 1 to workdays
This works well enough if the dataset is not big. But with some of the datasets I'm processing this takes a very long time. I would like to ask for ideas in order to do the process faster and more efficient. Thank you in advance for your input.
EDIT: One of the things I have thought is that maybe a groupby could be helpful, but I don't know if that is correct.

You can use np.where with isin to check if your Date (i.e. your index) is in the list you created:
import numpy as np
df1['Workday'] = np.where(df1.index.isin(workdays_list),1,0)
I can't reproduce your dataset, but something along those lines should work.

Pandas - How to remove duplicates based on another series?

I have a dataframe that contains three series called Date, Element,
and Data_Value--their types are string, string, and numpy.int64
respectively. Date has dates in the form of yyyy-mm-dd; Element has
strings that say either TMIN or TMAX, and it denotes whether the
Data_Value is the minimum or maximum temperature of a particular date;
lastly, the Data_Value series just represents the actual temperature.
The date series has multiple duplicates of the same date. E.g. for the
date 2005-01-01, there are 19 entries for the temperature column, the
values start at 28 and go all the way up to 156. I want to create a
new dataframe with the date and the maximum temperature only--I'll
eventually want one for TMIN values too, but I figure that if I can do
one I can figure out the other. I'll post some psuedocode with
explanation below to show what I've tried so far.
So far I have pulled in the csv and assigned it to a variable, df.
Then I sorted the values by Date, Element and Temperature
(Data_Value). After that, I created a variable called tmax that grabs
the necessary dates (I only need the data from 2005-2014) that have
'TMAX' as its Element value. I cast tmax into a new DataFrame, reset
its index to get rid of the useless index data from the first
dataframe, and dropped the 'Element' column since it was redundant at
this point. Now I'm (ultimately) trying to create a list of all the
Temperatures for TMAX so that I can plot it with pyplot. But I can't
figure out for the life of me how to reduce the dataframe to just the
single date and max value for that date. If I could just get that then
I could easily convert the series to a list and plot it.
def record_high_and_low_temperatures():
#read in csv
df = pd.read_csv('somedata.csv')
#sort values so they're in a nice order
df.sort_values(by=['Date', 'Element', 'Data_Value'], inplace=True)
# grab all entries for TMAX in correct date range
tmax = df[(df['Element'] == 'TMAX') & (df['Date'].between("2005-01-01", "2014-12-31"))]
# cast to dataframe
tmax = pd.DataFrame(tmax, columns=['Date', 'Data_Value'])
# Remove index column from previous dataframe
tmax.reset_index(drop=True, inplace=True)
# this is where I'm stuck, how do I get the max value per unique date?
max_temp_by_date = tmax.loc[tmax['Data_Value'].idxmax()]
Any and all help is appreciated, let me know if I need to clarify anything.
TL;DR:
Ok...
input dataframe looks like
date | data_value
2005-01-01 28
2005-01-01 33
2005-01-01 33
2005-01-01 44
2005-01-01 56
2005-01-02 0
2005-01-02 12
2005-01-02 30
2005-01-02 28
2005-01-02 22
Expected df should look like:
date | data_value
2005-01-01 79
2005-01-02 90
2005-01-03 88
2005-01-04 44
2005-01-05 63
I just want a dataframe that has each unique date coupled with the highest temperature on that day.

If I understand you correctly, what you would want to do is as Grzegorz already suggested in the comments, is to groupby date (take all elements of one date) and then take the maximum of that date:
df.groupby('date').max()
This will take all your groups and reduce them to only one row, taking the maximum element of every group. In this case, max() is called the aggregation function of the group. As you mentioned that you will also need the minimum at some point, a nice way to do this (instead of two groupbys) is to do the following:
df.groupby('date').agg(['max', 'min'])
which will pass over all groups once and apply both aggregation functions max and min returning two columns for each input column. More documentation on aggregation is here.

Try this:
df.groupby("Date")['data_value'].max()

Pandas calculated column from datetime index groups loop

I have a Pandas df with a Datetime Index. I want to loop over the following code with different values of strike, based on the index date value (different strike for different time period). Here is my code that produces what I am after for 1 strike across the whole time series:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
index=pd.date_range('2017-10-1 00:00:00', '2018-12-31 23:50:00', freq='30min')
df=pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(len(index),2).cumsum(axis=0),columns=['A','B'],index=index)
strike = 40
payoffs = df[df>strike]-strike
mean_payoff = payoffs.fillna(0).mean()
dist = mean_payoff.describe(percentiles=[0.05,.5,.95])
print(dist)
I want to use different values of strike based on the time period (index value).
So far I have tried to create a categorical calculated column with the intention of using map or apply row wise on the df. I have also played around with creating a dictionary and mapping the dict across the df.
Even if I get the calculated column with the correct strike value, I can 't think how to subtract the calculated column value (strike) from all other columns to get payoffs from above.
I feel like I need to use for loop and potentially create groups of date chunks that get appended together at the end of the loop, maybe with pd.concat.
Thanks in advance

I think you need convert DatetimeIndex to quarter period by to_period, then to string and last map by dict.
For comapring need gt with sub:
d = {'2017Q4':30, '2018Q1':40, '2018Q2':50, '2018Q3':60, '2018Q4':70}
strike = df.index.to_series().dt.to_period('Q').astype(str).map(d)
payoffs = df[df.gt(strike, 0)].sub(strike, 0)
mean_payoff = payoffs.fillna(0).mean()
dist = mean_payoff.describe(percentiles=[0.05,.5,.95])

Mapping your dataframe index into a dictionary can be a starting point.
a = dict()
a[2017]=30
a[2018]=40
ranint = random.choices([30,35,40,45],k=21936)
#given your index used in example
df = pd.DataFrame({values:ranint},index=index)
values year strick
2017-10-01 00:00:00 30 2017 30
2017-10-01 00:30:00 30 2017 30
2017-10-01 01:00:00 45 2017 30
df.year = df.index.year
index.strike = df.year.map(a)
df.returns = df.values - df.strike
Then you can extract return that are greater than 0:
df[df.returns>0]

Average of daily count of records per month in a Pandas DataFrame

I have a pandas DataFrame with a TIMESTAMP column, which is of the datetime64 data type. Please keep in mind, initially this column is not set as the index; the index is just regular integers, and the first few rows look like this:
TIMESTAMP TYPE
0 2014-07-25 11:50:30.640 2
1 2014-07-25 11:50:46.160 3
2 2014-07-25 11:50:57.370 2
There is an arbitrary number of records for each day, and there may be days with no data. What I am trying to get is the average number of daily records per month then plot it as a bar chart with months in the x-axis (April 2014, May 2014... etc.). I managed to calculate these values using the code below
dfWIM.index = dfWIM.TIMESTAMP
for i in range(dfWIM.TIMESTAMP.dt.year.min(),dfWIM.TIMESTAMP.dt.year.max()+1):
for j in range(1,13):
print dfWIM[(dfWIM.TIMESTAMP.dt.year == i) & (dfWIM.TIMESTAMP.dt.month == j)].resample('D', how='count').TIMESTAMP.mean()
which gives the following output:
nan
nan
3100.14285714
6746.7037037
9716.42857143
10318.5806452
9395.56666667
9883.64516129
8766.03225806
9297.78571429
10039.6774194
nan
nan
nan
This is ok as it is, and with some more work, I can map to results to correct month names, then plot the bar chart. However, I am not sure if this is the correct/best way, and I suspect there might be an easier way to get the results using Pandas.
I would be glad to hear what you think. Thanks!
NOTE: If I do not set the TIMESTAMP column as the index, I get a "reduction operation 'mean' not allowed for this dtype" error.

I think you'll want to do two rounds of groupby, first to group by day and count the instances, and next to group by month and compute the mean of the daily counts. You could do something like this.
First I'll generate some fake data that looks like yours:
import pandas as pd
# make 1000 random times throughout the year
N = 1000
times = pd.date_range('2014', '2015', freq='min')
ind = np.random.permutation(np.arange(len(times)))[:N]
data = pd.DataFrame({'TIMESTAMP': times[ind],
'TYPE': np.random.randint(0, 10, N)})
data.head()
Now I'll do the two groupbys using pd.TimeGrouper and plot the monthly average counts:
import seaborn as sns # for nice plot styles (optional)
daily = data.set_index('TIMESTAMP').groupby(pd.TimeGrouper(freq='D'))['TYPE'].count()
monthly = daily.groupby(pd.TimeGrouper(freq='M')).mean()
ax = monthly.plot(kind='bar')
The formatting along the x axis leaves something to be desired, but you can tweak that if necessary.