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I have a dataset of samples covering multiple days, all with a timestamp. I want to select rows within a specific time window. E.g. all rows that were generated between 1pm and 3 pm every day.
This is a sample of my data in a pandas dataframe:
22 22 2018-04-12T20:14:23Z 2018-04-12T21:14:23Z 0 6370.1
23 23 2018-04-12T21:14:23Z 2018-04-12T21:14:23Z 0 6368.8
24 24 2018-04-12T22:14:22Z 2018-04-13T01:14:23Z 0 6367.4
25 25 2018-04-12T23:14:22Z 2018-04-13T01:14:23Z 0 6365.8
26 26 2018-04-13T00:14:22Z 2018-04-13T01:14:23Z 0 6364.4
27 27 2018-04-13T01:14:22Z 2018-04-13T01:14:23Z 0 6362.7
28 28 2018-04-13T02:14:22Z 2018-04-13T05:14:22Z 0 6361.0
29 29 2018-04-13T03:14:22Z 2018-04-13T05:14:22Z 0 6359.3
.. ... ... ... ... ...
562 562 2018-05-05T08:13:21Z 2018-05-05T09:13:21Z 0 6300.9
563 563 2018-05-05T09:13:21Z 2018-05-05T09:13:21Z 0 6300.7
564 564 2018-05-05T10:13:14Z 2018-05-05T13:13:14Z 0 6300.2
565 565 2018-05-05T11:13:14Z 2018-05-05T13:13:14Z 0 6299.9
566 566 2018-05-05T12:13:14Z 2018-05-05T13:13:14Z 0 6299.6
How do I achieve that? I need to ignore the date and just evaluate the time component. I could traverse the dataframe in a loop and evaluate the date time in that way, but there must be a more simple way to do that..
I converted the messageDate which was read a a string to a dateTime by
df["messageDate"]=pd.to_datetime(df["messageDate"])
But after that I got stuck on how to filter on time only.
Any input appreciated.
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Using a DatetimeIndex: Then you can select rows by date using df. loc[start_date:end_date] .
The query function seams more efficient than the loc function. DF2: 2K records x 6 columns. The loc function seams much more efficient than the query function.
datetime columns have DatetimeProperties object, from which you can extract datetime.time and filter on it:
import datetime
df = pd.DataFrame(
[
'2018-04-12T12:00:00Z', '2018-04-12T14:00:00Z','2018-04-12T20:00:00Z',
'2018-04-13T12:00:00Z', '2018-04-13T14:00:00Z', '2018-04-13T20:00:00Z'
],
columns=['messageDate']
)
df
messageDate
# 0 2018-04-12 12:00:00
# 1 2018-04-12 14:00:00
# 2 2018-04-12 20:00:00
# 3 2018-04-13 12:00:00
# 4 2018-04-13 14:00:00
# 5 2018-04-13 20:00:00
df["messageDate"] = pd.to_datetime(df["messageDate"])
time_mask = (df['messageDate'].dt.hour >= 13) & \
(df['messageDate'].dt.hour <= 15)
df[time_mask]
# messageDate
# 1 2018-04-12 14:00:00
# 4 2018-04-13 14:00:00
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