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How to show to average sales for each year within ten years for a specific city in Pandas?

What would be the correct way to show what was the average sales volume in Carlisle city for each year between
2010-2020?
Here is an abbreviated form of the large data frame showing only the columns and rows relevant to the question:
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'Date': ['01/09/2009','01/10/2009','01/11/2009','01/12/2009','01/01/2010','01/02/2010','01/03/2010','01/04/2010','01/05/2010','01/06/2010','01/07/2010','01/08/2010','01/09/2010','01/10/2010','01/11/2010','01/12/2010','01/01/2011','01/02/2011'],
'RegionName': ['Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle','Carlisle'],
'SalesVolume': [118,137,122,132,83,81,105,114,110,106,137,130,129,121,129,100,84,62]})
This is what I've tried:
import pandas as pd
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
df = pd.read_csv ('C:/Users/user/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python39/Scripts/uk_hpi_dataset_2021_01.csv')
df.Date = pd.to_datetime(df.Date)
df['Year'] = pd.to_datetime(df['Date']).apply(lambda x:
'{year}'.format(year=x.year).zfill(2))
carlisle_vol = df[df['RegionName'].str.contains('Carlisle')]
carlisle_vol.groupby('Year')['SalesVolume'].mean()
print(sales_vol)
When I try to run this code, it doesn't filter the 'Date' column to only calculate the average SalesVolume for the years beginning in '01/01/2010' and ending at '01/12/2020'. For some reason, it also prints out every other column is well. Can anyone please help me to answer this question correctly?
This is the result I've got

>>> df.loc[(df["Date"].dt.year.between(2010, 2020))
& (df["RegionName"] == "Carlisle")] \
.groupby([pd.Grouper(key="Date", freq="Y")])["SalesVolume"].mean()
Date
2010-01-01 112.083333
2011-01-01 73.000000
Freq: A-DEC, Name: SalesVolume, dtype: float64
For further:
The only difference between the answer of #nocibambi is the groupby parameter and particularly the freq argument of pd.Grouper. Imagine your accounting year starts the 1st september.
Sales each 3 months:
>>> df
Date Sales
0 2010-09-01 1 # 1st group: mean=2.5
1 2010-12-01 2
2 2011-03-01 3
3 2011-06-01 4
4 2011-09-01 5 # 2nd group: mean=6.5
5 2011-12-01 6
6 2012-03-01 7
7 2012-06-01 8
>>> df.groupby(pd.Grouper(key="Date", freq="AS-SEP")).mean()
Sales
Date
2010-09-01 2.5
2011-09-01 6.5
Check the documentation to know all values of freq aliases and anchoring suffix

You can access year with the datetime accessor:
df[
(df["RegionName"] == "Carlisle")
& (df["Date"].dt.year >= 2010)
& (df["Date"].dt.year <= 2020)
].groupby(df.Date.dt.year)["SalesVolume"].mean()
>>>
Date
2010 112.083333
2011 73.000000
Name: SalesVolume, dtype: float64

how to create days from time delta [duplicate]

I have a dataframe in pandas called 'munged_data' with two columns 'entry_date' and 'dob' which i have converted to Timestamps using pd.to_timestamp.I am trying to figure out how to calculate ages of people based on the time difference between 'entry_date' and 'dob' and to do this i need to get the difference in days between the two columns ( so that i can then do somehting like round(days/365.25). I do not seem to be able to find a way to do this using a vectorized operation. When I do munged_data.entry_date-munged_data.dob i get the following :
internal_quote_id
2 15685977 days, 23:54:30.457856
3 11651985 days, 23:49:15.359744
4 9491988 days, 23:39:55.621376
7 11907004 days, 0:10:30.196224
9 15282164 days, 23:30:30.196224
15 15282227 days, 23:50:40.261632
However i do not seem to be able to extract the days as an integer so that i can continue with my calculation.
Any help appreciated.

Using the Pandas type Timedelta available since v0.15.0 you also can do:
In[1]: import pandas as pd
In[2]: df = pd.DataFrame([ pd.Timestamp('20150111'),
pd.Timestamp('20150301') ], columns=['date'])
In[3]: df['today'] = pd.Timestamp('20150315')
In[4]: df
Out[4]:
date today
0 2015-01-11 2015-03-15
1 2015-03-01 2015-03-15
In[5]: (df['today'] - df['date']).dt.days
Out[5]:
0 63
1 14
dtype: int64

You need 0.11 for this (0.11rc1 is out, final prob next week)
In [9]: df = DataFrame([ Timestamp('20010101'), Timestamp('20040601') ])
In [10]: df
Out[10]:
0
0 2001-01-01 00:00:00
1 2004-06-01 00:00:00
In [11]: df = DataFrame([ Timestamp('20010101'),
Timestamp('20040601') ],columns=['age'])
In [12]: df
Out[12]:
age
0 2001-01-01 00:00:00
1 2004-06-01 00:00:00
In [13]: df['today'] = Timestamp('20130419')
In [14]: df['diff'] = df['today']-df['age']
In [16]: df['years'] = df['diff'].apply(lambda x: float(x.item().days)/365)
In [17]: df
Out[17]:
age today diff years
0 2001-01-01 00:00:00 2013-04-19 00:00:00 4491 days, 00:00:00 12.304110
1 2004-06-01 00:00:00 2013-04-19 00:00:00 3244 days, 00:00:00 8.887671
You need this odd apply at the end because not yet full support for timedelta64[ns] scalars (e.g. like how we use Timestamps now for datetime64[ns], coming in 0.12)

Not sure if you still need it, but in Pandas 0.14 i usually use .astype('timedelta64[X]') method
http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/timeseries.html (frequency conversion)
df = pd.DataFrame([ pd.Timestamp('20010101'), pd.Timestamp('20040605') ])
df.ix[0]-df.ix[1]
Returns:
0 -1251 days
dtype: timedelta64[ns]
(df.ix[0]-df.ix[1]).astype('timedelta64[Y]')
Returns:
0 -4
dtype: float64
Hope that will help

Let's specify that you have a pandas series named time_difference which has type
numpy.timedelta64[ns]
One way of extracting just the day (or whatever desired attribute) is the following:
just_day = time_difference.apply(lambda x: pd.tslib.Timedelta(x).days)
This function is used because the numpy.timedelta64 object does not have a 'days' attribute.

To convert any type of data into days just use pd.Timedelta().days:
pd.Timedelta(1985, unit='Y').days
84494

Is there a Pandas function to highlight a week's 10 lowest values in a time series?

Rookie here so please excuse my question format:
I got an event time series dataset for two months (columns for "date/time" and "# of events", each row representing an hour).
I would like to highlight the 10 hours with the lowest numbers of events for each week. Is there a specific Pandas function for that? Thanks!

Let's say you have a dataframe df with column col as well as a datetime column.
You can simply sort the column with
import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({'col' : [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15],
'datetime' : ['2019-01-01 00:00:00','2015-02-01 00:00:00','2015-03-01 00:00:00','2015-04-01 00:00:00',
'2018-05-01 00:00:00','2016-06-01 00:00:00','2017-07-01 00:00:00','2013-08-01 00:00:00',
'2015-09-01 00:00:00','2015-10-01 00:00:00','2015-11-01 00:00:00','2015-12-01 00:00:00',
'2014-01-01 00:00:00','2020-01-01 00:00:00','2014-01-01 00:00:00']})
df = df.sort_values('col')
df = df.iloc[0:10,:]
df
Output:
col datetime
0 1 2019-01-01 00:00:00
1 2 2015-02-01 00:00:00
2 3 2015-03-01 00:00:00
3 4 2015-04-01 00:00:00
4 5 2018-05-01 00:00:00
5 6 2016-06-01 00:00:00
6 7 2017-07-01 00:00:00
7 8 2013-08-01 00:00:00
8 9 2015-09-01 00:00:00
9 10 2015-10-01 00:00:00

I know there's a function called nlargest. I guess there should be an nsmallest counterpart. pandas.DataFrame.nsmallest
df.nsmallest(n=10, columns=['col'])
My bad, so your DateTimeIndex is a Hourly sampling. And you need the hour(s) with least events weekly.
...
Date n_events
2020-06-06 08:00:00 3
2020-06-06 09:00:00 3
2020-06-06 10:00:00 2
...
Well I'd start by converting each hour into columns.
1. Create an Hour column that holds the hour of the day.
df['hour'] = df['date'].hour
Pivot the hour values into columns having values as n_events.
So you'll then have 1 datetime index, 24 hour columns, with values denoting #events. pandas.DataFrame.pivot_table
...
Date hour0 ... hour8 hour9 hour10 ... hour24
2020-06-06 0 3 3 2 0
...
Then you can resample it to weekly level aggregate using sum.
df.resample('w').sum()
The last part is a bit tricky to do on the dataframe. But fairly simple if you just need the output.
for row in df.itertuples():
print(sorted(row[1:]))

Sort date in string format in a pandas dataframe?

I have a dataframe like this, how to sort this.
df = pd.DataFrame({'Date':['Oct20','Nov19','Jan19','Sep20','Dec20']})
Date
0 Oct20
1 Nov19
2 Jan19
3 Sep20
4 Dec20
I familiar in sorting list of dates(string)
a.sort(key=lambda date: datetime.strptime(date, "%d-%b-%y"))
Any thoughts? Should i split it ?

First convert column to datetimes and get positions of sorted values by Series.argsort what is used for change ordering with DataFrame.iloc:
df = df.iloc[pd.to_datetime(df['Date'], format='%b%y').argsort()]
print (df)
Date
2 Jan19
1 Nov19
3 Sep20
0 Oct20
4 Dec20
Details:
print (pd.to_datetime(df['Date'], format='%b%y'))
0 2020-10-01
1 2019-11-01
2 2019-01-01
3 2020-09-01
4 2020-12-01
Name: Date, dtype: datetime64[ns]

Add months to a date in Pandas

I'm trying to figure out how to add 3 months to a date in a Pandas dataframe, while keeping it in the date format, so I can use it to lookup a range.
This is what I've tried:
#create dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame([pd.Timestamp('20161011'),
pd.Timestamp('20161101') ], columns=['date'])
#create a future month period
plus_month_period = 3
#calculate date + future period
df['future_date'] = plus_month_period.astype("timedelta64[M]")
However, I get the following error:
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'astype'

You could use pd.DateOffset
In [1756]: df.date + pd.DateOffset(months=plus_month_period)
Out[1756]:
0 2017-01-11
1 2017-02-01
Name: date, dtype: datetime64[ns]
Details
In [1757]: df
Out[1757]:
date
0 2016-10-11
1 2016-11-01
In [1758]: plus_month_period
Out[1758]: 3

Suppose you have a dataframe of the following format, where you have to add integer months to a date column.
Start_Date
Months_to_add
2014-06-01
23
2014-06-01
4
2000-10-01
10
2016-07-01
3
2017-12-01
90
2019-01-01
2
In such a scenario, using Zero's code or mattblack's code won't be useful. You have to use lambda function over the rows where the function takes 2 arguments -
A date to which months need to be added to
A month value in integer format
You can use the following function:
# Importing required modules
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
# Defining the function
def add_months(start_date, delta_period):
end_date = start_date + relativedelta(months=delta_period)
return end_date
After this you can use the following code snippet to add months to the Start_Date column. Use progress_apply functionality of Pandas. Refer to this Stackoverflow answer on progress_apply : Progress indicator during pandas operations.
from tqdm import tqdm
tqdm.pandas()
df["End_Date"] = df.progress_apply(lambda row: add_months(row["Start_Date"], row["Months_to_add"]), axis = 1)
Here's the full code form dataset creation, for your reference:
import pandas as pd
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
from tqdm import tqdm
tqdm.pandas()
# Initilize a new dataframe
df = pd.DataFrame()
# Add Start Date column
df["Start_Date"] = ['2014-06-01T00:00:00.000000000',
'2014-06-01T00:00:00.000000000',
'2000-10-01T00:00:00.000000000',
'2016-07-01T00:00:00.000000000',
'2017-12-01T00:00:00.000000000',
'2019-01-01T00:00:00.000000000']
# To convert the date column to a datetime format
df["Start_Date"] = pd.to_datetime(df["Start_Date"])
# Add months column
df["Months_to_add"] = [23, 4, 10, 3, 90, 2]
# Defining the Add Months function
def add_months(start_date, delta_period):
end_date = start_date + relativedelta(months=delta_period)
return end_date
# Apply function on the dataframe using lambda operation.
df["End_Date"] = df.progress_apply(lambda row: add_months(row["Start_Date"], row["Months_to_add"]), axis = 1)
You will have the final output dataframe as follows.
Start_Date
Months_to_add
End_Date
2014-06-01
23
2016-05-01
2014-06-01
4
2014-10-01
2000-10-01
10
2001-08-01
2016-07-01
3
2016-10-01
2017-12-01
90
2025-06-01
2019-01-01
2
2019-03-01
Please add to comments if there are any issues with the above code.
All the best!

I believe that the simplest and most efficient (faster) way to solve this is to transform the date to monthly periods with to_period(M), add the result with the values of the Months_to_add column and then retrieve the data as datetime with the .dt.to_timestamp() command.
Using the sample data created by #Aruparna Maity
Start_Date
Months_to_add
2014-06-01
23
2014-06-20
4
2000-10-01
10
2016-07-05
3
2017-12-15
90
2019-01-01
2
df['End_Date'] = ((df['Start_Date'].dt.to_period('M')) + df['Months_to_add']).dt.to_timestamp()
df.head(6)
#output
Start_Date Months_to_add End_Date
0 2014-06-01 23 2016-05-01
1 2014-06-20 4 2014-10-01
2 2000-10-01 10 2001-08-01
3 2016-07-05 3 2016-10-01
4 2017-12-15 90 2025-06-01
5 2019-01-01 2 2019-03-01
If the exact day is needed, just repeat the process, but changing the periods to days
df['End_Date'] = ((df['End_Date'].dt.to_period('D')) + df['Start_Date'].dt.day -1).dt.to_timestamp()
#output:
Start_Date Months_to_add End_Date
0 2014-06-01 23 2016-05-01
1 2014-06-20 4 2014-10-20
2 2000-10-01 10 2001-08-01
3 2016-07-05 3 2016-10-05
4 2017-12-15 90 2025-06-15
5 2019-01-01 2 2019-03-01

Another way using numpy timedelta64
df['date'] + np.timedelta64(plus_month_period, 'M')
0 2017-01-10 07:27:18
1 2017-01-31 07:27:18
Name: date, dtype: datetime64[ns]