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
Exercise instructions
We have already imported pandas as pd for you.
- Use
pd.date_rangeto create seven dates starting from'2017-1-1'at (default) daily frequency. Use the argumentsstartandperiods. Assign the result toseven_days. - Iterate over each date in
seven_daysand in each iteration, print the.dayofweekand.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(___.___, ___.___)