Pandas Tutorial : How to split dataframe by string or date   

In this article you will find 3 different examples about how to split a dataframe into new dataframes based on a column. The examples are:

• How to split dataframe on a month basis
• How to split dataframe per year
• Split dataframe on a string column
• References

Video tutorial

Pandas: How to split dataframe on a month basis

You can see the dataframe on the picture below. Initially the columns: "day", "mm", "year" don't exists. We are going to split the dataframe into several groups depending on the month. For that purpose we are splitting column date into day, month and year. After that we will group on the month column. Finally we are printing the output dataframes:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "Company": [
            "Samsung", "Samsung", "Samsung", "Samsung", "Samsung", "LG", "LG", "LG", "LG", "LG", "Sony", "Sony", "Sony",
            "Sony", "Sony",
        ],
        "Date": [
            "10/9/2015", "10/9/2015", "10/9/2017", "10/10/2017", "10/10/2017", "10/10/2018", "10/9/2018", "10/9/2018",
            "10/9/2018", "10/10/2016", "10/10/2016", "10/10/2016", "10/10/2019", "10/10/2019", "10/10/2019",
        ],
        "Country": [
            "India", "India", "USA", "France", "India", "India", "Germany", "USA", "Brazil", "Brazil", "India",
            "Germany", "India", "India", "Brazil",
        ],
        "Sells": [15, 81, 29, 33, 21, 42, 67, 35, 2, 34, 21, 50, 10, 26, 53],
    }
)

df[["day", "mm", "year"]] = df["Date"].str.split("/", expand=True)
agg = df.groupby(['mm'])
for group in agg:
    print(group)

result:

Pandas: How to split dataframe per year

This time we will use different approach in order to achieve similar behavior. First we will use lambda in order to convert the string into date. Then we are extracting the periods. The final part is to group by the extracted years:

import dateutil
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "Company": [
            "Samsung", "Samsung", "Samsung", "Samsung", "Samsung", "LG", "LG", "LG", "LG", "LG", "Sony", "Sony", "Sony",
            "Sony", "Sony",
        ],
        "Date": [
            "10/9/2015", "10/9/2015", "10/9/2017", "10/10/2017", "10/10/2017", "10/10/2018", "10/9/2018", "10/9/2018",
            "10/9/2018", "10/10/2016", "10/10/2016", "10/10/2016", "10/10/2019", "10/10/2019", "10/10/2019",
        ],
        "Country": [
            "India", "India", "USA", "France", "India", "India", "Germany", "USA", "Brazil", "Brazil", "India",
            "Germany", "India", "India", "Brazil",
        ],
        "Sells": [15, 81, 29, 33, 21, 42, 67, 35, 2, 34, 21, 50, 10, 26, 53],
    }
)

df["Date"] = df["Date"].apply(lambda x: dateutil.parser.parse(x))
year = df["Date"].dt.to_period("Y")
agg = df.groupby([year])
for group in agg:
    print(group)

result:

Pandas: Split dataframe on a strign column

This time the dataframe is a different one. And we have records for two companies inside. If our goal is to split this data frame into new ones based on the companies then we can do:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "Date": [
            "08/09/2018", "10/09/2017", "09/09/2017", "04/09/2017", "08/09/2018", "10/09/2018", "09/09/2018",
            "04/09/2018",
        ],
        "Company": [
            "Samsung", "Samsung", "Samsung", "Samsung", "Sony", "Sony", "Sony", "Sony",
        ],
    }
)

group = df["Company"]
# group by that period
agg = df.groupby([group])
for year, group in agg:
    print(group)

result:

Reference

• pandas.Series.str.split
• pandas.DataFrame.groupby
• pandas.Series.dt.to_period