Pandas: Group by calendar-week, then plot grouped barplots for the real datetime

Question

EDIT

I found a quite nice solution and posted it below as an answer. The result will look like this:

Answer 1

I think resample('W') is a better way to do this - by default it groups by weeks ending on Sunday ('W' is the same as 'W-SUN') but you can specify whatever you want.

In your example, try this:

grouped = (df
    .groupby('col1')                
    .apply(lambda g:               # work on groups of col1
        g.set_index('date')        
        [['amount']]
        .resample('W', how='sum')  # sum the amount field across weeks
    )
    .unstack(level=0)              # pivot the col1 index rows to columns
    .fillna(0)
)
grouped.columns=grouped.columns.droplevel()   # drop the 'col1' part of the multi-index column names
print grouped
grouped.plot(kind='bar')

which should print your data table and make a plot similar to yours, but with "real" date labels:

col1         A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H
date                                      
2013-11-03  18  0   9   0   8   0   0   4 
2013-11-10  4   11  0   1   16  2   15  2 
2013-11-17  10  14  19  8   13  6   9   8 
2013-11-24  10  13  13  0   0   13  15  10
2013-12-01  6   3   19  8   8   17  8   12
2013-12-08  5   15  5   7   12  0   11  8 
2013-12-15  8   6   11  11  0   16  6   14
2013-12-22  16  3   13  8   8   11  15  0 
2013-12-29  1   3   6   10  7   7   17  15
2014-01-05  12  7   10  11  6   0   1   12
2014-01-12  13  0   17  0   23  0   10  12
2014-01-19  10  9   2   3   8   1   18  3 
2014-01-26  24  9   8   1   19  10  0   3 
2014-02-02  1   6   16  0   0   10  8   13