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Calculating values from time series in pandas multi-indexed pivot tables

I've got a dataframe in pandas that stores the Id of a person, the quality of interaction, and the date of the interaction. A person can have multiple interactions across multiple dates, so to help visualise and plot this I converted it into a pivot table grouping first by Id then by date to analyse the pattern over time.
e.g.
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'Id':['A4G8','A4G8','A4G8','P9N3','P9N3','P9N3','P9N3','C7R5','L4U7'],
'Date':['2016-1-1','2016-1-15','2016-1-30','2017-2-12','2017-2-28','2017-3-10','2019-1-1','2018-6-1','2019-8-6'],
'Quality':[2,3,6,1,5,10,10,2,2]})
pt = df.pivot_table(values='Quality', index=['Id','Date'])
print(pt)
Leads to this:
Id
Date
Quality
A4G8
2016-1-1
2
2016-1-15
4
2016-1-30
6
P9N3
2017-2-12
1
2017-2-28
5
2017-3-10
10
2019-1-1
10
C7R5
2018-6-1
2
L4U7
2019-8-6
2
However, I'd also like to...
Measure the time from the first interaction for each interaction per Id
Measure the time from the previous interaction with the same Id
So I'd get a table similar to the one below
Id
Date
Quality
Time From First
Time To Prev
A4G8
2016-1-1
2
0 days
NA days
2016-1-15
4
14 days
14 days
2016-1-30
6
29 days
14 days
P9N3
2017-2-12
1
0 days
NA days
2017-2-28
5
15 days
15 days
2017-3-10
10
24 days
9 days
The Id column is a string type, and I've converted the date column into datetime, and the Quality column into an integer.
The column is rather large (>10,000 unique ids) so for performance reasons I'm trying to avoid using for loops. I'm guessing the solution is somehow using pd.eval but I'm stuck as to how to apply it correctly.
Apologies I'm a python, pandas, & stack overflow) noob and I haven't found the answer anywhere yet so even some pointers on where to look would be great :-).
Many thanks in advance

Convert Dates to datetimes and then substract minimal datetimes per groups by GroupBy.transformb subtracted by column Date and for second new column use DataFrameGroupBy.diff:
df['Date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Date'])
df['Time From First'] = df['Date'].sub(df.groupby('Id')['Date'].transform('min'))
df['Time To Prev'] = df.groupby('Id')['Date'].diff()
print (df)
Id Date Quality Time From First Time To Prev
0 A4G8 2016-01-01 2 0 days NaT
1 A4G8 2016-01-15 3 14 days 14 days
2 A4G8 2016-01-30 6 29 days 15 days
3 P9N3 2017-02-12 1 0 days NaT
4 P9N3 2017-02-28 5 16 days 16 days
5 P9N3 2017-03-10 10 26 days 10 days
6 P9N3 2019-01-01 10 688 days 662 days
7 C7R5 2018-06-01 2 0 days NaT
8 L4U7 2019-08-06 2 0 days NaT

df["Date"] = pd.to_datetime(df.Date)
df = df.merge(
df.groupby(["Id"]).Date.first(),
on="Id",
how="left",
suffixes=["", "_first"]
)
df["Time From First"] = df.Date-df.Date_first
df['Time To Prev'] = df.groupby('Id').Date.diff()
df.set_index(["Id", "Date"], inplace=True)
df
output:

Calculates a standard deviation columns for timedelta elements

I have the following dataframe in Python:
ID
country_ID
visit_time
0
ESP
10 days 12:03:00
0
ESP
5 days 02:03:00
0
ENG
5 days 10:02:00
1
ENG
3 days 08:05:03
1
ESP
1 days 03:02:00
1
ENG
2 days 07:01:03
2
ENG
0 days 12:01:02
For each ID I want to calculate the standard deviation of each country_ID group.
std_visit_ESP and std_visit_ENG columns.
standard deviation of visit time with country_ID = ESP for each ID.
standard deviation of visit time with country_ID = ENG for each ID.
ID
std_visit_ESP
std_visit_ENG
0
2 days 17:00:00
0 days 00:00:00
1
0 days 00:00:00
0 days 12:32:00
2
NaT
0 days 00:00:00
With the groupby method for the mean, you can specify the parameter numeric_only = False, but the std method of groupby does not include this option.
My idea is to convert the timedelta to seconds, calculate the standard deviation and then convert it back to timedelta. Here is an example:
td1 = timedelta(10,0,0,0,3,12,0).total_seconds()
td2 = timedelta(5,0,0,0,3,2,0).total_seconds()
arr = [td1,td2]
var = np.std(arr)
show_s = pd.to_timedelta(var, unit='s')
print(show_s)
I don't know how to use this with groupby to get the desired result. I am grateful for your help.

Use GroupBy.std and pd.to_timedelta
total_seconds = \
pd.to_timedelta(
df['visit_time'].dt.total_seconds()
.groupby([df['ID'], df['country_ID']]).std(),
unit='S').unstack().fillna(pd.Timedelta(days=0))
print(total_seconds)
country_ID ENG ESP
ID
0 0 days 00:00:00 3 days 19:55:25.973595304
1 0 days 17:43:29.315934274 0 days 00:00:00
2 0 days 00:00:00 0 days 00:00:00

If I understand correctly, this should work for you:
stddevs = df['visit_time'].dt.total_seconds().groupby([df['country_ID']]).std().apply(lambda x: pd.Timedelta(seconds=x))
Output:
>>> stddevs
country_ID
ENG 2 days 01:17:43.835702
ESP 4 days 16:40:16.598773
Name: visit_time, dtype: timedelta64[ns]
Formatting:
stddevs = df['visit_time'].dt.total_seconds().groupby([df['country_ID']]).std().apply(lambda x: pd.Timedelta(seconds=x)).to_frame().T.add_prefix('std_visit_').reset_index(drop=True).rename_axis(None, axis=1)
Output:
>>> stddevs
std_visit_ENG std_visit_ESP
0 2 days 01:17:43.835702 4 days 16:40:16.598773

how to replace seconds to zero in pandas

I have following dataframe in pandas
code time
1 003002
1 053003
1 060002
1 073001
1 073003
I want to generate following dataframe in pandas
code time new_time
1 003002 00:30:00
1 053003 05:30:00
1 060002 06:00:00
1 073001 07:30:00
1 073003 07:30:00
I am doing it with following code
df['new_time'] = pd.to_datetime(df['time'] ,format='%H%M%S').dt.time
How can I do it in pandas?

Use Series.dt.floor:
df['time'] = pd.to_datetime(df['time'], format='%H%M%S').dt.floor('T').dt.time
Or remove last 2 values by indexing, then change format to %H%M:
df['time'] = pd.to_datetime(df['time'].str[:-2], format='%H%M').dt.time
print (df)
code time
0 1 00:30:00
1 1 05:30:00
2 1 06:00:00
3 1 07:30:00
4 1 07:30:00

An option using astype:
pd.to_datetime(df_oclh.Time).astype('datetime64[m]').dt.time
'datetime64[m]' symbolizes the time we want to convert to which is datetime with minutes being the largest granulariy of time wanted. Alternatively you could use [s] for seconds (rid of milliseconds) or [H] for hours (rid of minutes, seconds and milliseconds)

Count String Values in Column across 30 Minute Time Bins using Pandas

I am looking to determine the count of string variables in a column across a 3 month data sample. Samples were taken at random times throughout each day. I can group the data by hour, but I require the fidelity of 30 minute intervals (ex. 0500-0600, 0600-0630) on roughly 10k rows of data.
An example of the data:
datetime stringvalues
2018-06-06 17:00 A
2018-06-07 17:30 B
2018-06-07 17:33 A
2018-06-08 19:00 B
2018-06-09 05:27 A
I have tried setting the datetime column as the index, but I cannot figure how to group the data on anything other than 'hour' and I don't have fidelity on the string value count:
df['datetime'] = pd.to_datetime(df['datetime']
df.index = df['datetime']
df.groupby(df.index.hour).count()
Which returns an output similar to:
datetime stringvalues
datetime
5 0 0
6 2 2
7 5 5
8 1 1
...
I researched multi-indexing and resampling to some length the past two days but I have been unable to find a similar question. The desired result would look something like this:
datetime A B
0500 1 2
0530 3 5
0600 4 6
0630 2 0
....

There is no straightforward way to do a TimeGrouper on the time component, so we do this in two steps:
v = (df.groupby([pd.Grouper(key='datetime', freq='30min'), 'stringvalues'])
.size()
.unstack(fill_value=0))
v.groupby(v.index.time).sum()
stringvalues A B
05:00:00 1 0
17:00:00 1 0
17:30:00 1 1
19:00:00 0 1

Pandas: converting amount of seconds into timedeltas or times

I have an amount of seconds in a dataframe, let's say:
s = 122
I want to convert it to the following format:
00:02:02.0000
To do that I try using to_datetime the following way:
pd.to_datetime(s, format='%H:%M:%S.%f')
However this doesn't work:
ValueError: time data 122 does not match format '%H:%M:%S.%f' (match)
I also tried using unit='ms' instead of format, but then I get the date before the time.
How can I modify my code to get the desired convertion ?
It needs to be done in the dataframe using pandas if possible.
EDIT: both jezrael and MedAli solutions below are valid, however Jezrael solution have the advantage to work not only with integers but also with Datetime.time as input!

Use to_timedelta with convert seconds to nanoseconds:
df = pd.DataFrame({'sec':[122,3,5,7,1,0]})
df['t'] = pd.to_timedelta(df['sec'] * 10**9)
print (df)
sec t
0 122 00:02:02
1 3 00:00:03
2 5 00:00:05
3 7 00:00:07
4 1 00:00:01
5 0 00:00:00

You can edit your code as follows to get the desired result:
df = pd.DataFrame({'sec':[122,3,5,7,1,0]})
df['time'] = pd.to_datetime(df.sec, unit="s").dt.time
Output:
In [10]: df
Out[10]:
sec time
0 110 00:01:50
1 3 00:00:03
2 5 00:00:05
3 7 00:00:07
4 1 00:00:01
5 0 00:00:00