Q:

Pandas Cumulative Sum in GroupBy

I have a time series data with symbol and their respective values at a particular time.
index,symbol,value
01:00,A,10
01:00,B,15
01:01,A,15
01:01,B,25
01:02,A,30
01:02,B,45

Now I want create a 4th column, which has cumulative value on time series basis for each symbol but from each cumulative row, the first row value would be subtracted for each symbol respectively
index,symbol,value,adjustedCumulativeSum
01:00,A,10,0
01:00,B,15,0
01:01,A,15,15
01:01,B,25,25
01:02,A,30,45
01:02,B,45,70

I know how to do normal cumulative sum
df = df.reset_index().sort_values(['index','symbol'])
df['cumlativesum'] = df.groupby('symbol')['value'].cumsum()
df = df.set_index('index')

But do I deduct row 0 value from all cumulative sums? 

A:

You can subtract the first value (extracted with .iat[0]) for each group in a transform function:
df['cumlativesum'] = df.groupby('symbol')['value'].transform(lambda g: g.cumsum()-g.iat[0])
df = df.set_index('index')

df
#      symbol   value   cumlativesum
#index          
#01:00      A      10          0
#01:00      B      15          0
#01:01      A      15         15
#01:01      B      25         25
#01:02      A      30         45
#01:02      B      45         70

