Coping With Time Periods in Python Pandas – Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly

One of the more powerful, and perhaps underused (by me at least), features of the Python/pandas data analysis package is its ability to work with time series and represent periods of time as well as simple “pointwise” dates and datetimes.

Here’s a link to a first draft Jupyter notebook showing how to cast weekly, monthly and quarterly periods in pandas from NHS time series datasets: Recipes – Representing Time Periods.ipynb