I have dataframe with fields last_payout and amount. I need to sum all amount for each month and plot the output.

df[['last_payout','amount']].dtypeslast_payout    datetime64[ns]
amount           float64
dtype: object

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df[['last_payout','amount']].head<bound method NDFrame.head of                last_payout  amount
0      2017-02-14 11:00:06          23401.0
1      2017-02-14 11:00:06          1444.0
2      2017-02-14 11:00:06          0.0
3      2017-02-14 11:00:06          0.0
4      2017-02-14 11:00:06          290083.0

I used the code from jezrael's answer to plot the number of transactions per month.

(df.loc[df['last_payout'].dt.year.between(2016, 2017), 'last_payout'].dt.to_period('M').value_counts().sort_index().plot(kind="bar")
)

Number of transactions per month:

How do I sum all amount for each month and plot the output? How should I extend the code above for doing this?

I tried to implement .sum but didn't succeed.

PeriodIndex solution:

groupby by month period by to_period and aggregate sum:

df['amount'].groupby(df['last_payout'].dt.to_period('M')).sum().plot(kind='bar')

DatetimeIndex solutions:

Use resample by months (M) or starts of months (MS) with aggregate sum:

s = df.resample('M', on='last_payout')['amount'].sum()
#alternative
#s = df.groupby(pd.Grouper(freq='M', key='last_payout'))['amount'].sum()
print (s)
last_payout
2017-02-28     23401.0
2017-03-31      1444.0
2017-04-30    290083.0
Freq: M, Name: amount, dtype: float64

Or:

s = df.resample('MS', on='last_payout')['amount'].sum()
#s = df.groupby(pd.Grouper(freq='MS', key='last_payout'))['amount'].sum()
print (s)
last_payout
2017-02-01     23401.0
2017-03-01      1444.0
2017-04-01    290083.0
Freq: MS, Name: amount, dtype: float64

Then is necessary format x labels:

ax = s.plot(kind='bar')
ax.set_xticklabels(s.index.strftime('%Y-%m'))

Setup:

import pandas as pdtemp=u"""last_payout,amount
2017-02-14 11:00:06,23401.0
2017-03-14 11:00:06,1444.0
2017-03-14 11:00:06,0.0
2017-04-14 11:00:06,0.0
2017-04-14 11:00:06,290083.0"""
#after testing replace 'pd.compat.StringIO(temp)' to 'filename.csv'
df = pd.read_csv(pd.compat.StringIO(temp), parse_dates=[0])
print (df)last_payout    amount
0 2017-02-14 11:00:06   23401.0
1 2017-03-14 11:00:06    1444.0
2 2017-03-14 11:00:06       0.0
3 2017-04-14 11:00:06       0.0
4 2017-04-14 11:00:06  290083.0