Your first time series

You have learned in the video how to create a sequence of dates using pd.date_range(). You have also seen that each date in the resulting pd.DatetimeIndex is a pd.Timestamp with various attributes that you can access to obtain information about the date.

Now, you'll create a week of data, iterate over the result, and obtain the dayofweek and day_name() for each date.

This exercise is part of the course

Manipulating Time Series Data in Python

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Exercise instructions

We have already imported pandas as pd for you.

Use pd.date_range to create seven dates starting from '2017-1-1' at (default) daily frequency. Use the arguments start and periods. Assign the result to seven_days.
Iterate over each date in seven_days and in each iteration, print the .dayofweek and .day_name() attributes.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Create the range of dates here
seven_days = ____

# Iterate over the dates and print the number and name of the weekday
for day in ___:
    print(___.___, ___.___)

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