Pandas Datetime: Exercises, Practice, Solution

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Pandas Datetime [25 exercises with solution]

ufo.csv

Extraterrestrials, visitors, little green men, UFOs, swap gas. What do they want? Where do they come from? Do they like cheeseburgers? This dataset will likely not help you answer these questions. It does contain over 80,000 records of UFO sightings dating back as far as 1949. With the latitude and longitude data it is possible to assess the global distribution of UFO sightings (patterns could aid in planetary defense if invasion proves to be imminent). The dates and times, along with the duration of the UFO's stay and description of the craft also lend themselves to predictions. Can we find patterns in their arrival times and durations? Do aliens work on weekends? Help defend the planet and learn about your fellow earthlings (and when they are most likely to see ET).

Data Sources: ufo_sighting_data.csv - [80,332 records]

Exercises data sources: ufo.csv - [347 random records from ufo_sighting_data.csv]

Content

Column Name	Description
Date_time	standardized date and time of sighting
city	location of UFO sighting
state/province	the US state or Canadian province, appears blank for other locations
country	Country of UFO sighting
UFO_shape	a one word description of the "spacecraft"
length_of_encounter_seconds	standardized to seconds, length of the observation of the UFO
described_duration _of_encounter	raw description of the length of the encounter (shows uncertainty to previous column)
description	text description of the UFO encounter. Warning column is messy, with some curation it could lend itself to some natural language processing and sentiment analysis.
date_documented	when was the UFO sighting reported
latitude	latitude
longitude	longitude

Note: There are no missing data in the columns (ufo.csv).

Source:

(a) https://github.com/planetsig/ufo-reports (b) https://www.kaggle.com/camnugent/ufo-sightings-around-the-world

1. Write a Pandas program to create the todays date.
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2. Write a Pandas program to calculate all the sighting days of the unidentified flying object (ufo) from current date.
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3. Write a Pandas program to get the current date, oldest date and number of days between Current date and oldest date of Ufo dataset.
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4. Write a Pandas program to get all the sighting days of the unidentified flying object (ufo) which are less than or equal to 40 years (365*40 days).
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5. Write a Pandas program to get all the sighting days of the unidentified flying object (ufo) between 1950-10-10 and 1960-10-10.
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6. Write a Pandas program to get all the sighting years of the unidentified flying object (ufo) and create the year as column.
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7. Write a Pandas program to create a plot to present the number of unidentified flying object (UFO) reports per year.
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8. Write a Pandas program to extract year, month, day, hour, minute, second and weekday from unidentified flying object (UFO) reporting date.
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9. Write a Pandas program to convert given datetime to timestamp.
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10. Write a Pandas program to count year-country wise frequency of reporting dates of unidentified flying object(UFO).
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11. Write a Pandas program to extract unique reporting dates of unidentified flying object (UFO).
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12. Write a Pandas program to get the difference (in days) between documented date and reporting date of unidentified flying object (UFO).
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13. Write a Pandas program to add 100 days with reporting date of unidentified flying object (UFO).
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14. Write a Pandas program to generate sequences of fixed-frequency dates and time spans.
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15. Write a Pandas program to create a conversion between strings and datetime.
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16. Write a Pandas program to manipulate and convert date times with timezone information.
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17. Write a Pandas program to get the average mean of the UFO (unidentified flying object) sighting was reported.
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18. Write a Pandas program to create a graphical analysis of UFO (unidentified flying object) Sightings year.
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19. Write a Pandas program to check the empty values of UFO (unidentified flying object) Dataframe.
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20. Write a Pandas program to create a plot of distribution of UFO (unidentified flying object) observation time.
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21. Write a Pandas program to create a graphical analysis of UFO (unidentified flying object) sighted by month.
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22. Write a Pandas program to create a comparison of the top 10 years in which the UFO was sighted vs the hours of the day.
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23. Write a Pandas program to create a comparison of the top 10 years in which the UFO was sighted vs each Month.
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24. Write a Pandas program to create a heatmap (rectangular data as a color-encoded matrix) for comparison of the top 10 years in which the UFO was sighted vs each Month.
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25. Write a Pandas program to create a Timewheel of Hour Vs Year comparison of the top 10 years in which the UFO was sighted.
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