Can Pandas plot a histogram of dates?

Question

I\'ve taken my Series and coerced it to a datetime column of dtype=datetime64[ns] (though only need day resolution...not sure how to change).

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Answer 1

All of these answers seem overly complex, as least with 'modern' pandas it's two lines.

df.set_index('date', inplace=True)
df.resample('M').size().plot.bar()

Answer 2

I think resample might be what you are looking for. In your case, do:

df.set_index('date', inplace=True)
# for '1M' for 1 month; '1W' for 1 week; check documentation on offset alias
df.resample('1M', how='count')

It is only doing the counting and not the plot, so you then have to make your own plots.

See this post for more details on the documentation of resample pandas resample documentation

I have ran into similar problems as you did. Hope this helps.