Python | Pandas Series.cumsum() to find cumulative sum of a Series
Pandas Series.cumsum()
is used to find Cumulative sum of a series. In cumulative sum, the length of returned series is same as input and every element is equal to sum of all previous elements.
Syntax: Series.cumsum(axis=None, skipna=True)
Parameters:
axis: 0 or ‘index’ for row wise operation and 1 or ‘columns’ for column wise operation
skipna: Skips NaN addition for elements after the very next one if True.Result type: Series
Example #1:
In this example, a series is created from a Python list using Pandas .Series() method. The list also contains a Null value and the skipna parameter is kept default, that is True.
# importing pandas module import pandas as pd # importing numpy module import numpy as np # making list of values values = [ 3 , 4 , np.nan, 7 , 2 , 0 ] # making series from list series = pd.Series(values) # calling method cumsum = series.cumsum() # display cumsum |
Output:
3 7 NaN 14 16 16 dtype: float64
Explanation
Cumulative sum is sum of current and all previous values. As shown in above output, the addition was done as follows
3 3+4 = 7 7+NaN = NaN 7+7 = 14 14+2 = 16 16+0 = 16
Example #2: skipna=False
In this example, a series is created just like in the above example. But the skipna
parameter is kept False. Hence NULL values won’t be ignored and it would be added every time after it’s occurrence.
# importing pandas module import pandas as pd # importing numpy module import numpy as np # making list of values values = [ 1 , 20 , 13 , np.nan, 0 , 1 , 5 , 23 ] # making series from list series = pd.Series(values) # calling method cumsum = series.cumsum(skipna = False ) # display cumsum |
Output:
0 1.0 1 21.0 2 34.0 3 NaN 4 NaN 5 NaN 6 NaN 7 NaN dtype: float64
Explanation: As it can be seen in output, all the values after first occurrence of NaN are also NaN since any number + NaN is also NaN.
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