How do I convert daily data to weekly average data with pandas?

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Below is part of my data, i want to compare it to other data but that is in weekly form.
How can i summarize each 7 days to convert it into Week 1, Week 2 etc. so that eventually i have 52 rows (instead of 365 rows of days) of each week showing the summary for cases and deaths?
As the title states is that i use pandas.

Part of 365 day data, columns from left to right are; year, month, day, cases, deaths, country

Sidenote: I eventually want to compare this dataset with another, but that one has the data already summarized per week of the year.

I have googled solutions but could only find people wanting the min max of weekly data that originally was daily data.
I thought maybe using the groupby function but i don’t see it working.
Also i would think that .agg function would be needed to summarize.

Asked By: Viktor

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Answer 1

I used the below fake data to explain:

Here, we convert the data to weekly format and take the weekly average of Points column.

# Import libraries
import pandas as pd

# Read data
data = pd.read_excel("fake_ds.xlsx", sheet_name=0)

# Concatenate columns
data["Date"] = data["Year"].map(str) + "-" + data["Month"].map(str) + "-" + data["Day"].map(str)

# Change column to datetime
data['Date'] = data['Date'].astype('datetime64')

# Convert date to week
data['Week_Number'] = data['Date'].dt.isocalendar().week

# Change column order
cols = data.columns.tolist()
cols = cols[-2:] + cols[:-2]
data = data[cols]

# Group by and find average
data_weekly = data["Weekly_Average"] = data.groupby("Week_Number")["Points"].mean()

The output is:

Week_Number
48    418.500000
49     47.000000
50    169.857143
51    355.857143
52    195.666667
Name: Points, dtype: float64

Answered By: hsaltan

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