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How to count nonzero occurrences based on another variable in python?

Date Precipitation
20010101 0
20010102 10
20010103 5
20010104 3
20010105 0
...
20011231 0
I have dataset showing precipitation (in) per each day in the year 2001. The date variable is in YYYYMMDD format. I want to calculate how many times it precipitated each month. In other words, I need the number of times the precipitation value is not 0 per each month.
I am a beginner python learner and don’t quite know how to tell the program to output the count per each month without having to do it individually.
The code I have below does not work because I’m not sure how to tell the program the Date variable is in YYYYMMDD format.
Precip_Count= Date[(Precipitation !=0)]
Is there a way to do this by only using NumPy?

First, convert Date column to datetime using pd.to_datetime and specify the format of your datetime string Datetime format code, then use Series.ne to find non-zero values, groupby month and take the sum using GroupBy.sum
df['Date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Date'], format="%Y%M%d")
df['Precipitation'].ne(0).groupby(df.Date.dt.month).sum()
Date
1 3
...
12 0
Name: Precipitation, dtype: int64
OR using Series.dt.to_period here.
df['Precipitation'].ne(0).groupby(df.Date.dt.to_period('M')).sum()
Date
2001-01 3
...
2001-12 0
Freq: M, Name: Precipitation, dtype: int64
If you want index as DatetimeIndex use pd.Grouper
df['Precipitation'].ne(0).groupby(pd.Grouper(freq='M')).sum()
Date
2001-01-31 3
...
2001-12-31 0
Freq: M, Name: Precipitation, dtype: int64
The output is calculated from df mentioned in the question.

Convert Float Date to YYYY-MM-DD Format

I have a Date column with float values and would like to convert to YYYY-MM-DD
Date
43411.74786
43381.63381
43339.3885
I've tried a few methods from the other threads but still can't solve it.
df['Date'] =
pd.to_datetime(df['Date'],format='%Y/%m/%d').dt.strftime('%Y%m%d')
This changes the year to 1970.
df['Modified'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Modified'], unit='s')
This changes the year to 1970.
df['Date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Date'], format='%Y%m%d.0')
I get an error message: time data '43411' does not match format '%Y%m%d.0' (match).

Check with
pd.to_datetime(df.Date,unit='d',origin='1900-01-01')
Out[364]:
0 2018-11-09 17:56:55.104
1 2018-10-10 15:12:41.184
2 2018-08-29 09:19:26.400
Name: Date, dtype: datetime64[ns]

This is working for me, let me know if this works for you.
x['Date_new']=pd.to_datetime(x.Date, unit='d', origin='1900-01-01').dt.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
x
output
Date Date_new
0 43411.74786 2018-11-09
1 43381.63381 2018-10-10
2 43339.38850 2018-08-29

How to convert string to datetime format in pandas python?

I have a column I_DATE of type string(object) in a dataframe called train as show below.
I_DATE
28-03-2012 2:15:00 PM
28-03-2012 2:17:28 PM
28-03-2012 2:50:50 PM
How to convert I_DATE from string to datetime format & specify the format of input string.
Also, how to filter rows based on a range of dates in pandas?

Use to_datetime. There is no need for a format string since the parser is able to handle it:
In [51]:
pd.to_datetime(df['I_DATE'])
Out[51]:
0 2012-03-28 14:15:00
1 2012-03-28 14:17:28
2 2012-03-28 14:50:50
Name: I_DATE, dtype: datetime64[ns]
To access the date/day/time component use the dt accessor:
In [54]:
df['I_DATE'].dt.date
Out[54]:
0 2012-03-28
1 2012-03-28
2 2012-03-28
dtype: object
In [56]:
df['I_DATE'].dt.time
Out[56]:
0 14:15:00
1 14:17:28
2 14:50:50
dtype: object
You can use strings to filter as an example:
In [59]:
df = pd.DataFrame({'date':pd.date_range(start = dt.datetime(2015,1,1), end = dt.datetime.now())})
df[(df['date'] > '2015-02-04') & (df['date'] < '2015-02-10')]
Out[59]:
date
35 2015-02-05
36 2015-02-06
37 2015-02-07
38 2015-02-08
39 2015-02-09

Approach: 1
Given original string format: 2019/03/04 00:08:48
you can use
updated_df = df['timestamp'].astype('datetime64[ns]')
The result will be in this datetime format: 2019-03-04 00:08:48
Approach: 2
updated_df = df.astype({'timestamp':'datetime64[ns]'})

For a datetime in AM/PM format, the time format is '%I:%M:%S %p'. See all possible format combinations at https://strftime.org/. N.B. If you have time component as in the OP, the conversion will be done much, much faster if you pass the format= (see here for more info).
df['I_DATE'] = pd.to_datetime(df['I_DATE'], format='%d-%m-%Y %I:%M:%S %p')
To filter a datetime using a range, you can use query:
df = pd.DataFrame({'date': pd.date_range('2015-01-01', '2015-04-01')})
df.query("'2015-02-04' < date < '2015-02-10'")
or use between to create a mask and filter.
df[df['date'].between('2015-02-04', '2015-02-10')]

Extracting just Month and Year separately from Pandas Datetime column

I have a Dataframe, df, with the following column:
df['ArrivalDate'] =
...
936 2012-12-31
938 2012-12-29
965 2012-12-31
966 2012-12-31
967 2012-12-31
968 2012-12-31
969 2012-12-31
970 2012-12-29
971 2012-12-31
972 2012-12-29
973 2012-12-29
...
The elements of the column are pandas.tslib.Timestamp.
I want to just include the year and month. I thought there would be simple way to do it, but I can't figure it out.
Here's what I've tried:
df['ArrivalDate'].resample('M', how = 'mean')
I got the following error:
Only valid with DatetimeIndex or PeriodIndex
Then I tried:
df['ArrivalDate'].apply(lambda(x):x[:-2])
I got the following error:
'Timestamp' object has no attribute '__getitem__'
Any suggestions?
Edit: I sort of figured it out.
df.index = df['ArrivalDate']
Then, I can resample another column using the index.
But I'd still like a method for reconfiguring the entire column. Any ideas?

If you want new columns showing year and month separately you can do this:
df['year'] = pd.DatetimeIndex(df['ArrivalDate']).year
df['month'] = pd.DatetimeIndex(df['ArrivalDate']).month
or...
df['year'] = df['ArrivalDate'].dt.year
df['month'] = df['ArrivalDate'].dt.month
Then you can combine them or work with them just as they are.

The df['date_column'] has to be in date time format.
df['month_year'] = df['date_column'].dt.to_period('M')
You could also use D for Day, 2M for 2 Months etc. for different sampling intervals, and in case one has time series data with time stamp, we can go for granular sampling intervals such as 45Min for 45 min, 15Min for 15 min sampling etc.

You can directly access the year and month attributes, or request a datetime.datetime:
In [15]: t = pandas.tslib.Timestamp.now()
In [16]: t
Out[16]: Timestamp('2014-08-05 14:49:39.643701', tz=None)
In [17]: t.to_pydatetime() #datetime method is deprecated
Out[17]: datetime.datetime(2014, 8, 5, 14, 49, 39, 643701)
In [18]: t.day
Out[18]: 5
In [19]: t.month
Out[19]: 8
In [20]: t.year
Out[20]: 2014
One way to combine year and month is to make an integer encoding them, such as: 201408 for August, 2014. Along a whole column, you could do this as:
df['YearMonth'] = df['ArrivalDate'].map(lambda x: 100*x.year + x.month)
or many variants thereof.
I'm not a big fan of doing this, though, since it makes date alignment and arithmetic painful later and especially painful for others who come upon your code or data without this same convention. A better way is to choose a day-of-month convention, such as final non-US-holiday weekday, or first day, etc., and leave the data in a date/time format with the chosen date convention.
The calendar module is useful for obtaining the number value of certain days such as the final weekday. Then you could do something like:
import calendar
import datetime
df['AdjustedDateToEndOfMonth'] = df['ArrivalDate'].map(
lambda x: datetime.datetime(
x.year,
x.month,
max(calendar.monthcalendar(x.year, x.month)[-1][:5])
)
)
If you happen to be looking for a way to solve the simpler problem of just formatting the datetime column into some stringified representation, for that you can just make use of the strftime function from the datetime.datetime class, like this:
In [5]: df
Out[5]:
date_time
0 2014-10-17 22:00:03
In [6]: df.date_time
Out[6]:
0 2014-10-17 22:00:03
Name: date_time, dtype: datetime64[ns]
In [7]: df.date_time.map(lambda x: x.strftime('%Y-%m-%d'))
Out[7]:
0 2014-10-17
Name: date_time, dtype: object

If you want the month year unique pair, using apply is pretty sleek.
df['mnth_yr'] = df['date_column'].apply(lambda x: x.strftime('%B-%Y'))
Outputs month-year in one column.
Don't forget to first change the format to date-time before, I generally forget.
df['date_column'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date_column'])

SINGLE LINE: Adding a column with 'year-month'-paires:
('pd.to_datetime' first changes the column dtype to date-time before the operation)
df['yyyy-mm'] = pd.to_datetime(df['ArrivalDate']).dt.strftime('%Y-%m')
Accordingly for an extra 'year' or 'month' column:
df['yyyy'] = pd.to_datetime(df['ArrivalDate']).dt.strftime('%Y')
df['mm'] = pd.to_datetime(df['ArrivalDate']).dt.strftime('%m')

Extracting the Year say from ['2018-03-04']
df['Year'] = pd.DatetimeIndex(df['date']).year
The df['Year'] creates a new column. While if you want to extract the month just use .month

You can first convert your date strings with pandas.to_datetime, which gives you access to all of the numpy datetime and timedelta facilities. For example:
df['ArrivalDate'] = pandas.to_datetime(df['ArrivalDate'])
df['Month'] = df['ArrivalDate'].values.astype('datetime64[M]')

#KieranPC's solution is the correct approach for Pandas, but is not easily extendible for arbitrary attributes. For this, you can use getattr within a generator comprehension and combine using pd.concat:
# input data
list_of_dates = ['2012-12-31', '2012-12-29', '2012-12-30']
df = pd.DataFrame({'ArrivalDate': pd.to_datetime(list_of_dates)})
# define list of attributes required
L = ['year', 'month', 'day', 'dayofweek', 'dayofyear', 'weekofyear', 'quarter']
# define generator expression of series, one for each attribute
date_gen = (getattr(df['ArrivalDate'].dt, i).rename(i) for i in L)
# concatenate results and join to original dataframe
df = df.join(pd.concat(date_gen, axis=1))
print(df)
ArrivalDate year month day dayofweek dayofyear weekofyear quarter
0 2012-12-31 2012 12 31 0 366 1 4
1 2012-12-29 2012 12 29 5 364 52 4
2 2012-12-30 2012 12 30 6 365 52 4

Thanks to jaknap32, I wanted to aggregate the results according to Year and Month, so this worked:
df_join['YearMonth'] = df_join['timestamp'].apply(lambda x:x.strftime('%Y%m'))
Output was neat:
0 201108
1 201108
2 201108

There is two steps to extract year for all the dataframe without using method apply.
Step1
convert the column to datetime :
df['ArrivalDate']=pd.to_datetime(df['ArrivalDate'], format='%Y-%m-%d')
Step2
extract the year or the month using DatetimeIndex() method
pd.DatetimeIndex(df['ArrivalDate']).year

df['Month_Year'] = df['Date'].dt.to_period('M')
Result :
Date Month_Year
0 2020-01-01 2020-01
1 2020-01-02 2020-01
2 2020-01-03 2020-01
3 2020-01-04 2020-01
4 2020-01-05 2020-01

df['year_month']=df.datetime_column.apply(lambda x: str(x)[:7])
This worked fine for me, didn't think pandas would interpret the resultant string date as date, but when i did the plot, it knew very well my agenda and the string year_month where ordered properly... gotta love pandas!

Then I tried:
df['ArrivalDate'].apply(lambda(x):x[:-2])
I think here the proper input should be string.
df['ArrivalDate'].astype(str).apply(lambda(x):x[:-2])

How do I convert strings in a Pandas data frame to a 'date' data type?

I have a Pandas data frame, one of the column contains date strings in the format YYYY-MM-DD
For e.g. '2013-10-28'
At the moment the dtype of the column is object.
How do I convert the column values to Pandas date format?

Essentially equivalent to #waitingkuo, but I would use pd.to_datetime here (it seems a little cleaner, and offers some additional functionality e.g. dayfirst):
In [11]: df
Out[11]:
a time
0 1 2013-01-01
1 2 2013-01-02
2 3 2013-01-03
In [12]: pd.to_datetime(df['time'])
Out[12]:
0 2013-01-01 00:00:00
1 2013-01-02 00:00:00
2 2013-01-03 00:00:00
Name: time, dtype: datetime64[ns]
In [13]: df['time'] = pd.to_datetime(df['time'])
In [14]: df
Out[14]:
a time
0 1 2013-01-01 00:00:00
1 2 2013-01-02 00:00:00
2 3 2013-01-03 00:00:00
Handling ValueErrors
If you run into a situation where doing
df['time'] = pd.to_datetime(df['time'])
Throws a
ValueError: Unknown string format
That means you have invalid (non-coercible) values. If you are okay with having them converted to pd.NaT, you can add an errors='coerce' argument to to_datetime:
df['time'] = pd.to_datetime(df['time'], errors='coerce')

Use astype
In [31]: df
Out[31]:
a time
0 1 2013-01-01
1 2 2013-01-02
2 3 2013-01-03
In [32]: df['time'] = df['time'].astype('datetime64[ns]')
In [33]: df
Out[33]:
a time
0 1 2013-01-01 00:00:00
1 2 2013-01-02 00:00:00
2 3 2013-01-03 00:00:00

I imagine a lot of data comes into Pandas from CSV files, in which case you can simply convert the date during the initial CSV read:
dfcsv = pd.read_csv('xyz.csv', parse_dates=[0]) where the 0 refers to the column the date is in.
You could also add , index_col=0 in there if you want the date to be your index.
See https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/reference/api/pandas.read_csv.html

Now you can do df['column'].dt.date
Note that for datetime objects, if you don't see the hour when they're all 00:00:00, that's not pandas. That's iPython notebook trying to make things look pretty.

If you want to get the DATE and not DATETIME format:
df["id_date"] = pd.to_datetime(df["id_date"]).dt.date

Another way to do this and this works well if you have multiple columns to convert to datetime.
cols = ['date1','date2']
df[cols] = df[cols].apply(pd.to_datetime)

It may be the case that dates need to be converted to a different frequency. In this case, I would suggest setting an index by dates.
#set an index by dates
df.set_index(['time'], drop=True, inplace=True)
After this, you can more easily convert to the type of date format you will need most. Below, I sequentially convert to a number of date formats, ultimately ending up with a set of daily dates at the beginning of the month.
#Convert to daily dates
df.index = pd.DatetimeIndex(data=df.index)
#Convert to monthly dates
df.index = df.index.to_period(freq='M')
#Convert to strings
df.index = df.index.strftime('%Y-%m')
#Convert to daily dates
df.index = pd.DatetimeIndex(data=df.index)
For brevity, I don't show that I run the following code after each line above:
print(df.index)
print(df.index.dtype)
print(type(df.index))
This gives me the following output:
Index(['2013-01-01', '2013-01-02', '2013-01-03'], dtype='object', name='time')
object
<class 'pandas.core.indexes.base.Index'>
DatetimeIndex(['2013-01-01', '2013-01-02', '2013-01-03'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', name='time', freq=None)
datetime64[ns]
<class 'pandas.core.indexes.datetimes.DatetimeIndex'>
PeriodIndex(['2013-01', '2013-01', '2013-01'], dtype='period[M]', name='time', freq='M')
period[M]
<class 'pandas.core.indexes.period.PeriodIndex'>
Index(['2013-01', '2013-01', '2013-01'], dtype='object')
object
<class 'pandas.core.indexes.base.Index'>
DatetimeIndex(['2013-01-01', '2013-01-01', '2013-01-01'], dtype='datetime64[ns]', freq=None)
datetime64[ns]
<class 'pandas.core.indexes.datetimes.DatetimeIndex'>

For the sake of completeness, another option, which might not be the most straightforward one, a bit similar to the one proposed by #SSS, but using rather the datetime library is:
import datetime
df["Date"] = df["Date"].apply(lambda x: datetime.datetime.strptime(x, '%Y-%d-%m').date())

# Column Non-Null Count Dtype
--- ------ -------------- -----
0 startDay 110526 non-null object
1 endDay 110526 non-null object
import pandas as pd
df['startDay'] = pd.to_datetime(df.startDay)
df['endDay'] = pd.to_datetime(df.endDay)
# Column Non-Null Count Dtype
--- ------ -------------- -----
0 startDay 110526 non-null datetime64[ns]
1 endDay 110526 non-null datetime64[ns]

Try to convert one of the rows into timestamp using the pd.to_datetime function and then use .map to map the formular to the entire column