Time Wheel in python3 pandas

Question

How can I create a timewheel similar to below with logon/logoff event times? Specifically looking to correlate mean login/logoff time correlated to the day of the week in a time

Answer 1

Taking the data generation from @DavidDale's answer, one may plot a pcolormesh plot of the table on a polar axes. This would directly give the desired plot.

import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import calendar

# generate the table with timestamps
np.random.seed(1)
times = pd.Series(pd.to_datetime("Nov 1 '16 at 0:42") + 
                  pd.to_timedelta(np.random.rand(10000)*60*24*40, unit='m'))
# generate counts of each (weekday, hour)
data = pd.crosstab(times.dt.weekday, 
                   times.dt.hour.apply(lambda x: '{:02d}:00'.format(x))).fillna(0)
data.index = [calendar.day_name[i][0:3] for i in data.index]
data = data.T

# produce polar plot
fig, ax = plt.subplots(subplot_kw=dict(projection='polar'))
ax.set_theta_zero_location("N")
ax.set_theta_direction(-1)

# plot data
theta, r = np.meshgrid(np.linspace(0,2*np.pi,len(data)+1),np.arange(len(data.columns)+1))
ax.pcolormesh(theta,r,data.T.values, cmap="Reds")

# set ticklabels
pos,step = np.linspace(0,2*np.pi,len(data),endpoint=False, retstep=True)
pos += step/2.
ax.set_xticks(pos)
ax.set_xticklabels(data.index)

ax.set_yticks(np.arange(len(data.columns)))
ax.set_yticklabels(data.columns)
plt.show()