Pandas groupby month and year

Question

I have the following dataframe:

Date        abc    xyz
01-Jun-13   100    200
03-Jun-13   -20    50
15-Aug-13   40     -5
20-Jan-14   25     15
21-Feb-14   6         


        

Answer 1

Why not keep it simple?!

GB=DF.groupby([(DF.index.year),(DF.index.month)]).sum()

giving you,

print(GB)
        abc  xyz
2013 6   80  250
     8   40   -5
2014 1   25   15
     2   60   80

and then you can plot like asked using,

GB.plot('abc','xyz',kind='scatter')