Pandas Reindex to Fill Missing Dates, or Better Method to Fill?

Question

My data is absence records from a factory. Some days there are no absences so there is no data or date recorded for that day. However, and where this gets hairy with the o

Answer 1

I think you just have a problem with the use of datetime, this approach worked for me

ts.set_index(['Date'],inplace=True)
ts.index = pd.to_datetime(ts.index,format='%b %d %Y')
d2 = pd.DataFrame(index=pd.date_range('2014-01-01','2014-12-31'))

print ts.join(d2,how='right')