Pandas plot series with series names in one row
<p>I have a csv file like this</p>

<pre><code>date, name, value
2016-09-01, alice, 10
2016-09-02, alice, 11
2016-09-01, bob, 8
2016-09-02, bob, 14
</code></pre>

<p>With pandas can I plot as a line chart? Or must I change the structure of the file to something similar to </p>

<pre><code>date, alice, bob
2016-09-01, 10, 8
2016-09-02, 11, 14
</code></pre>

<p>Pivot your dataframe to plot one curve per column:</p>

<pre><code>df.pivot(index='date', columns='name').plot()
</code></pre>

python pandas plot time-series