So I have two different data-frame and I concatenated both. All columns are the same; however, the date column has all sorts of different dates in the M/D/YR format.
dataframe dates get shuffled around later in the sequence
Is there a way to keep the whole dataframe itself and just sort the rows based on the dates in the date column. I also want to keep the format that date is in.
so basically
date people
6/8/2015 1
7/10/2018 2
6/5/2015 0
gets converted into:
date people
6/5/2015 0
6/8/2015 1
7/10/2018 2
Thank you!
PS: I've tried the options in the other post on this but it does not work
Trying to elaborate on what can be done: Intialize/ Merge the dataframe and convert the column into datetime type
df= pd.DataFrame({'people':[1,2,0],'date': ['6/8/2015','7/10/2018','6/5/2015',]})
df.date=pd.to_datetime(df.date,format="%m/%d/%Y")
print(df)
Output:
date people
0 2015-06-08 1
1 2018-07-10 2
2 2015-06-05 0
Sort on the basis of date
df=df.sort_values('date')
print(df)
Output:
date people
2 2015-06-05 0
0 2015-06-08 1
1 2018-07-10 2
Maintain the format again:
df['date']=df['date'].dt.strftime('%m/%d/%Y')
print(df)
Output:
date people
2 06/05/2015 0
0 06/08/2015 1
1 07/10/2018 2
Try changing the 'date' column to pandas Datetime and then sort
import pandas as pd
df= pd.DataFrame({'people':[1,1,1,2],'date':
['4/12/1961','5/5/1961','7/21/1961','8/6/1961']})
df['date'] =pd.to_datetime(df.date)
df.sort_values(by='date')
Output:
date people
1961-04-12 1
1961-05-05 1
1961-07-21 1
1961-08-06 2
To get back the initial format:
df['date']=df['date'].dt.strftime('%m/%d/%y')
Output:
date people
04/12/61 1
05/05/61 1
07/21/61 1
08/06/61 2
Not sure exactly what you want to get but if you just want to get people who belong to one date just simply use groupby
.
df = df.groupby('date').sum()
or different groupby
df = df.groupby('date').agg(lambda col: col.tolist()).reset_index()
Then you can sort it as you want. Maybe this is going to be what you're looking for Sort Pandas Dataframe by Date
why not simply?
dataset[SortBy["date"]]
can you provide what you tried or how is your structure?
In case you need to sort in reversed order do:
dataset[SortBy["date"]][Reverse]
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