Re: [Matplotlib-users] contribution offer: griddata with gaussian average

2009-10-05 Thread Christopher Barker
VáclavŠmilauer wrote: I checked the official terminology, it is a kernel average smoother (in the sense of [1]) with special weight function exp(-(x-x0)^2/const), operating on irregularly-spaced data in 2d. I am not sure if that is the same as what scipy.stats.kde.gaussian_kde does, the

[Matplotlib-users] contribution offer: griddata with gaussian average

2009-10-04 Thread Václav Šmilauer
Hi, about a year ago I developed for my own purposes a routine for averaging irregularly-sampled data using gaussian average. I would like to contribute it to matplotlib, after a clean-up, if there is interest. First it stores all data points in a (regular) grid. One can ask for value at

Re: [Matplotlib-users] contribution offer: griddata with gaussian average

2009-10-04 Thread Christopher Barker
Václav Šmilauer wrote: about a year ago I developed for my own purposes a routine for averaging irregularly-sampled data using gaussian average. is this similar to Kernel Density estimation? http://www.scipy.org/doc/api_docs/SciPy.stats.kde.gaussian_kde.html In any case, it sounds more like

Re: [Matplotlib-users] contribution offer: griddata with gaussian average

2009-10-04 Thread Robert Kern
On 2009-10-04 15:27 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: Václav Šmilauer wrote: about a year ago I developed for my own purposes a routine for averaging irregularly-sampled data using gaussian average. is this similar to Kernel Density estimation?

Re: [Matplotlib-users] contribution offer: griddata with gaussian average

2009-10-04 Thread Eric Firing
Václav Šmilauer wrote: Hi, about a year ago I developed for my own purposes a routine for averaging irregularly-sampled data using gaussian average. I would like to contribute it to matplotlib, after a clean-up, if there is interest. This sounds like a nice thing to have, but I am wondering

Re: [Matplotlib-users] contribution offer: griddata with gaussian average

2009-10-04 Thread Ryan May
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-10-04 15:27 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: Václav Šmilauer wrote: about a year ago I developed for my own purposes a routine for averaging irregularly-sampled data using gaussian average. is this similar to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] contribution offer: griddata with gaussian average

2009-10-04 Thread Robert Kern
Ryan May wrote: On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Robert Kern robert.k...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-10-04 15:27 PM, Christopher Barker wrote: Václav Šmilauer wrote: about a year ago I developed for my own purposes a routine for averaging irregularly-sampled data using gaussian average. is this