I have a column of dates in unix timestamps and i need to convert them into relative dates from the starting activity.
The final output should be the column D, which expresses the relative time from the activity which has index = 1, in particular the relative time has always to refer to the first activity (index=1).
A index timestamp D activity1 1 1.612946e+09 0 activity2 2 1.614255e+09 80 hours activity3 1 1.612181e+09 0 activity4 2 1.613045e+09 50 hours activity5 3 1.637668e+09 430 hours
Any idea?
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Answer
Use to_datetime with unit='s' and then create groups starting by index equal 1 and get first value, last subtract and convert to hours:
df['timestamp'] = pd.to_datetime(df['timestamp'], unit='s')
s = df.groupby(df['index'].eq(1).cumsum())['timestamp'].transform('first')
df['D1'] = df['timestamp'].sub(s).dt.total_seconds().div(3600)
print (df)
A index timestamp D D1
0 activity1 1 2021-02-10 08:33:20 0 0.000000
1 activity2 2 2021-02-25 12:10:00 80 hours 363.611111
2 activity3 1 2021-02-01 12:03:20 0 0.000000
3 activity4 2 2021-02-11 12:03:20 50 hours 240.000000
4 activity5 3 2021-11-23 11:46:40 430 hours 7079.722222