See Also -------- bfill : Backward fill NaN values in the resampled data. ffill : Forward fill NaN values in the resampled data. nearest : Fill NaN values in the resampled data with nearest neighbor starting from center. interpolate : Fill NaN values using interpolation. Series.fillna : Fill NaN values in the Series using the specified method, which can be 'bfill' and 'ffill'. DataFrame.fillna : Fill NaN values in the DataFrame using the specified method, which can be 'bfill' and 'ffill'. References ---------- .. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imputation_(statistics) Examples -------- Resampling a Series: >>> s = pd.Series([1, 2, 3], ... index=pd.date_range('20180101', periods=3, freq='h')) >>> s 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1 2018-01-01 01:00:00 2 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3 Freq: H, dtype: int64 Without filling the missing values you get: >>> s.resample("30min").asfreq() 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1.0 2018-01-01 00:30:00 NaN 2018-01-01 01:00:00 2.0 2018-01-01 01:30:00 NaN 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3.0 Freq: 30T, dtype: float64 >>> s.resample('30min').fillna("backfill") 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1 2018-01-01 00:30:00 2 2018-01-01 01:00:00 2 2018-01-01 01:30:00 3 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3 Freq: 30T, dtype: int64 >>> s.resample('15min').fillna("backfill", limit=2) 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1.0 2018-01-01 00:15:00 NaN 2018-01-01 00:30:00 2.0 2018-01-01 00:45:00 2.0 2018-01-01 01:00:00 2.0 2018-01-01 01:15:00 NaN 2018-01-01 01:30:00 3.0 2018-01-01 01:45:00 3.0 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3.0 Freq: 15T, dtype: float64 >>> s.resample('30min').fillna("pad") 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1 2018-01-01 00:30:00 1 2018-01-01 01:00:00 2 2018-01-01 01:30:00 2 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3 Freq: 30T, dtype: int64 >>> s.resample('30min').fillna("nearest") 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1 2018-01-01 00:30:00 2 2018-01-01 01:00:00 2 2018-01-01 01:30:00 3 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3 Freq: 30T, dtype: int64 Missing values present before the upsampling are not affected. >>> sm = pd.Series([1, None, 3], ... index=pd.date_range('20180101', periods=3, freq='h')) >>> sm 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1.0 2018-01-01 01:00:00 NaN 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3.0 Freq: H, dtype: float64 >>> sm.resample('30min').fillna('backfill') 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1.0 2018-01-01 00:30:00 NaN 2018-01-01 01:00:00 NaN 2018-01-01 01:30:00 3.0 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3.0 Freq: 30T, dtype: float64 >>> sm.resample('30min').fillna('pad') 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1.0 2018-01-01 00:30:00 1.0 2018-01-01 01:00:00 NaN 2018-01-01 01:30:00 NaN 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3.0 Freq: 30T, dtype: float64 >>> sm.resample('30min').fillna('nearest') 2018-01-01 00:00:00 1.0 2018-01-01 00:30:00 NaN 2018-01-01 01:00:00 NaN 2018-01-01 01:30:00 3.0 2018-01-01 02:00:00 3.0 Freq: 30T, dtype: float64 DataFrame resampling is done column-wise. All the same options are available. >>> df = pd.DataFrame({'a': [2, np.nan, 6], 'b': [1, 3, 5]}, ... index=pd.date_range('20180101', periods=3, ... freq='h')) >>> df a b 2018-01-01 00:00:00 2.0 1 2018-01-01 01:00:00 NaN 3 2018-01-01 02:00:00 6.0 5 >>> df.resample('30min').fillna("bfill") a b 2018-01-01 00:00:00 2.0 1 2018-01-01 00:30:00 NaN 3 2018-01-01 01:00:00 NaN 3 2018-01-01 01:30:00 6.0 5 2018-01-01 02:00:00 6.0 5 zv.fillna is deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Use obj.ffill(), obj.bfill(), or obj.nearest() instead.)