Charting Not Recognizing Datetime Objects within Dataframe

[RickBL]

I’m having trouble creating a simple line chart from a data frame created with data from a SQL call. The df object looks like this:

Index, Date, Images_Added. Date is type - datetime64[ns].

You can see that Streamlit renders the data frame object as such:

However the chart that gets created with st.line_chart(df) is:

It seems that I should probably be using st.altair_chart and have tried to wrangle the data frame so that it will play nice with altair, but no luck so far. Any thoughts appreciated.

[randyzwitch]

Hi @RickBL, welcome to the Streamlit community!

I suspect you might get the chart you are looking for if you make the Date column an index instead, but you’re right, in the situation where st.line_chart doesn’t give you what you want, using st.altair_chart is the way to proceed.

Best,
Randy

[RickBL]

Thank you Randy. Changing index was the key. In case this will help others:

sql_query = pd.read_sql_query (’’‘EXEC sp_SQLCALL @datain = ‘4009’ ‘’’, cnxn)
df = pd.DataFrame(sql_query)
df[‘Date’] = pd.to_datetime(df[‘Date’])

new_df = df.set_index('Date', inplace=False)
print(new_df)

st.line_chart(new_df)
st.bar_chart(new_df)