grouping by day of the week pandas

Question

  I have a dataframe,df 

        Index       eventName Count   pct
     2017-08-09       ABC     24     95.00%
     2017-08-09       CDE    140     98.50%
     2017-08-         


        

Answer 1

You can use:

df.rename(columns={'Index': 'New_name'}, inplace=True)

df['New_name'] = pd.to_datetime(df['New_name'])

df['Day_df'] = df['New_name'].dt.weekday_name

df.groupby(['Day_df']).count()

Answer 2

By using value_counts

df.Index=pd.to_datetime(df.Index)
df.Index.dt.weekday_name.value_counts()
Out[994]: 
Wednesday    3
Thursday     2
Friday       2
Name: Index, dtype: int64

Answer 3

Wen's answer with value_counts is good, but does not account for the possibility of NaNs in the pct column.

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Assuming Index is the index, you can call groupby + count -

df.index = pd.to_datetime(df.index)
df.groupby(df.index.weekday_name).pct.count()

Index
Friday       2
Thursday     2
Wednesday    3
Name: pct, dtype: int64

To sort on weekday, convert to pd.Categorical, as shown here.