I have a dataframe that looks like below, the date is the index. How would I plot a time series showing a line for each of the years? I have tried df.plot(figsize=(15,4)) but this gives me one line.
Date Value
2008-01-31 22
2008-02-28 17
2008-03-31 34
2008-04-30 29
2009-01-31 33
2009-02-28 42
2009-03-31 45
2009-04-30 39
2019-01-31 17
2019-02-28 12
2019-03-31 11
2019-04-30 12
2020-01-31 24
2020-02-28 34
2020-03-31 43
2020-04-30 45
You can just do a groupby using year.
df = pd.read_clipboard()
df = df.set_index(pd.DatetimeIndex(df['Date']))
df.groupby(df.index.year)['Value'].plot()
In case you want to use year as series of data and compare day to day:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# Create a date column from index (easier to manipulate)
df["date_column"] = pd.to_datetime(df.index)
# Create a year column
df["year"] = df["date_column"].dt.year
# Create a month-day column
df["month_day"] = (df["date_column"].dt.month).astype(str).str.zfill(2) + \
"-" + df["date_column"].dt.day.astype(str).str.zfill(2)
# Plot. Pivot will create for each year a column and these columns will be used as series.
df.pivot('month_day', 'year', 'Value').plot(kind='line', figsize=(12, 8), marker='o' )
plt.title("Values per Month-Day - Year comparison", y=1.1, fontsize=14)
plt.xlabel("Month-Day", labelpad=12, fontsize=12)
plt.ylabel("Value", labelpad=12, fontsize=12);
