You can use ordered catagorical first:
cats = [ 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday']
df['Day of Week'] = df['Day of Week'].astype('category', categories=cats, ordered=True)
In pandas 0.21.0+
use:
from pandas.api.types import CategoricalDtype
cat_type = CategoricalDtype(categories=cats, ordered=True)
df['Day of Week'] = df['Day of Week'].astype(cat_type)
Or reindex
:
df_weekday = df.groupby(['Day of Week']).sum().reindex(cats)