bigframes.pandas.api.typing.SeriesGroupBy.diff#

SeriesGroupBy.diff(periods=1) → Series[source]#

First discrete difference of element. Calculates the difference of each element compared with another element in the group (default is element in previous row).

Examples:

For SeriesGroupBy:

>>> lst = ['a', 'a', 'a', 'b', 'b', 'b']
>>> ser = bpd.Series([7, 2, 8, 4, 3, 3], index=lst)
>>> ser.groupby(level=0).diff()
a    <NA>
a      -5
a       6
b    <NA>
b      -1
b       0
dtype: Int64

For DataFrameGroupBy:

>>> data = {'a': [1, 3, 5, 7, 7, 8, 3], 'b': [1, 4, 8, 4, 4, 2, 1]}
>>> df = bpd.DataFrame(data, index=['dog', 'dog', 'dog',
...                   'mouse', 'mouse', 'mouse', 'mouse'])
>>> df.groupby(level=0).diff()
          a     b
dog    <NA>  <NA>
dog       2     3
dog       2     4
mouse  <NA>  <NA>
mouse     0     0
mouse     1    -2
mouse    -5    -1

[7 rows x 2 columns]

Returns:

First differences.

Return type:

bigframes.pandas.DataFrame or bigframes.pandas.Series