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Time Series Analysis with Python Cookbook - Second Edition
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Time Series Analysis with Python Cookbook - Second Edition

by Tarek A. Atwan
January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
812 pages
21h 41m
English
Packt Publishing
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Working with Date and Time in Python

At the core of time-series data is time. Time-series data is a sequence of observations or data points captured in successive order and at regular time intervals. In the context of a pandas DataFrame, time-series data has an ordered index of type DatetimeIndex, as you have seen in earlier chapters, which offers efficient slicing, indexing, and time-based grouping of data.

Being familiar with manipulating the date and time in time-series data is an essential component of time-series analysis and modeling. This chapter provides recipes for common scenarios when working with date and time in time-series data.

Python has several built-in modules for working with date and time, such as datetime, time, calendar ...

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