Python Pandas Sum Values in Columns If date between 2 dates

Question

I have a dataframe df which can be created with this:

data={\'id\':[1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2],
      \'date1\':[datetime.date(2016,1,1),datetime.date(201         


        

Answer 1

Method 1: list comprehensions

This is inelegant, but hey, it works! (EDIT: added a second method below.)

# Convert datetime.date to pandas timestamps for easier comparisons
df['date1'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date1'])
df['date2'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date2'])

# solution
newdf = pd.DataFrame(data=drange, columns=['usedate'])
# for each usedate ud, get all df rows whose dates contain ud,
# then sum the scores of these rows
newdf['score1sum'] = [df[(df['date1'] <= ud) & (df['date2'] >= ud)]['score1'].sum() for ud in drange]
newdf['score2sum'] = [df[(df['date1'] <= ud) & (df['date2'] >= ud)]['score2'].sum() for ud in drange]

# output
newdf
     usedate  score1sum  score2sum
  2016-01-01          8          8
  2016-01-02         21          6
  2016-01-03         32         13
  2016-01-04         30         35
  2016-01-05         13         26

Method 2: a helper function with transform (or apply)

newdf = pd.DataFrame(data=drange, columns=['usedate'])

def sum_scores(d):
    return df[(df['date1'] <= d) & (df['date2'] >= d)][['score1', 'score2']].sum()

# apply works here too, and is about equally fast in my testing
newdf[['score1sum', 'score2sum']] = newdf['usedate'].transform(sum_scores)

# newdf is same to above

Timings are comparable

# Jupyter timeit cell magic
%%timeit 
newdf['score1sum'] = [df[(df['date1'] <= d) & (df['date2'] >= d)]['score1'].sum() for d in drange]
newdf['score1sum'] = [df[(df['date1'] <= d) & (df['date2'] >= d)]['score2'].sum() for d in drange]

100 loops, best of 3: 10.4 ms per loop

# Jupyter timeit line magic
%timeit newdf[['score1sum', 'score2sum']] = newdf['usedate'].transform(sum_scores) 

100 loops, best of 3: 8.51 ms per loop