I have a data frame like this which is imported from a CSV.
stock pop Date 2016-01-04 325.316 82 2016-01-11 320.036 83 2016-01-18 299.169 79 2016-01-25 296.579 84 2016-02-01 295.334 82 2016-02-08 309.777 81 2016-02-15 317.397 75 2016-02-22 328.005 80 2016-02-29 315.504 81 2016-03-07 328.802 81 2016-03-14 339.559 86 2016-03-21 352.160 82 2016-03-28 348.773 84 2016-04-04 346.482 83 2016-04-11 346.980 80 2016-04-18 357.140 75 2016-04-25 357.439 77 2016-05-02 356.443 78 2016-05-09 365.158 78 2016-05-16 352.160 72 2016-05-23 344.540 74 2016-05-30 354.998 81 2016-06-06 347.428 77 2016-06-13 341.053 78 2016-06-20 363.515 80 2016-06-27 349.669 80 2016-07-04 371.583 82 2016-07-11 358.335 81 2016-07-18 362.021 79 2016-07-25 368.844 77 ... ... ...
I wanted to add a new column MA which calculates Rolling mean for the column pop. I tried the following
df['MA']=data.rolling(5,on='pop').mean()
I get an error
ValueError: Wrong number of items passed 2, placement implies 1
So I thought let me try if it just works without adding a column. I used
data.rolling(5,on='pop').mean()
I got the output
stock pop Date 2016-01-04 NaN 82 2016-01-11 NaN 83 2016-01-18 NaN 79 2016-01-25 NaN 84 2016-02-01 307.2868 82 2016-02-08 304.1790 81 2016-02-15 303.6512 75 2016-02-22 309.4184 80 2016-02-29 313.2034 81 2016-03-07 319.8970 81 2016-03-14 325.8534 86 2016-03-21 332.8060 82 2016-03-28 336.9596 84 2016-04-04 343.1552 83 2016-04-11 346.7908 80 2016-04-18 350.3070 75 2016-04-25 351.3628 77 2016-05-02 352.8968 78 2016-05-09 356.6320 78 2016-05-16 357.6680 72 2016-05-23 355.1480 74 2016-05-30 354.6598 81 2016-06-06 352.8568 77 2016-06-13 348.0358 78 2016-06-20 350.3068 80 2016-06-27 351.3326 80 2016-07-04 354.6496 82 2016-07-11 356.8310 81 2016-07-18 361.0246 79 2016-07-25 362.0904 77 ... ... ...
I can't seem to apply Rolling mean on the column pop. What am I doing wrong?