Title: Encode Days Of The Week
Slug: encode_days_of_the_week
Summary: How to the days of the week for dates and times for machine learning in Python.
Date: 2017-09-11 12:00
Category: Machine Learning
Tags: Preprocessing Dates And Times
Authors: Chris Albon

Preliminaries



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# Load library
import pandas as pd

Create Date And Time Data



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# Create dates
dates = pd.Series(pd.date_range('2/2/2002', periods=3, freq='M'))

# View data
dates









    Out[2]:





0   2002-02-28
1   2002-03-31
2   2002-04-30
dtype: datetime64[ns]

Show Days Of The Week



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# Show days of the week
dates.dt.weekday_name









    Out[3]:





0    Thursday
1      Sunday
2     Tuesday
dtype: object