numpy - Python: Sliding windowed mean, ignoring missing data

Question

I am currently trying to process an experimental timeseries dataset, which has missing values. I would like to calculate the sliding windowed mean of this dataset along time, while handling nan values. The correct way for me to do it is to compute inside each window the sum of the finite elements and divide it with their number. This nonlinearity forces me to use non convolutional methods to face this problem, thus I have a severe time bottleneck in this part of the process. As a code example of what I am trying to accomplish I present the following:

import numpy as np
#Construct sample data
n = 50
n_miss = 20
win_size = 3
data= np.random.random(50)
data[np.random.randint(0,n-1, n_miss)] = None

#Compute mean
result = np.zeros(data.size)
for count in range(data.size):
    part_data = data[max(count - (win_size - 1) / 2, 0): min(count + (win_size + 1) / 2, data.size)]
    mask = np.isfinite(part_data)
    if np.sum(mask) != 0:
        result[count] = np.sum(part_data[mask]) / np.sum(mask)
    else:
        result[count] = None
print 'Input:',data
print 'Output:',result

with output:

Input:  [ 0.47431791  0.17620835  0.78495647  0.79894688  0.58334064  0.38068788
  0.87829696         nan  0.71589171         nan  0.70359557  0.76113969
  0.13694387  0.32126573  0.22730891         nan  0.35057169         nan
  0.89251851  0.56226354  0.040117           nan  0.37249799  0.77625334
         nan         nan         nan         nan  0.63227417  0.92781944
  0.99416471  0.81850753  0.35004997         nan  0.80743783  0.60828597
         nan  0.01410721         nan         nan  0.6976317          nan
  0.03875394  0.60924066  0.22998065         nan  0.34476729  0.38090961
         nan  0.2021964 ]
Output: [ 0.32526313  0.47849424  0.5867039   0.72241466  0.58765847  0.61410849
  0.62949242  0.79709433  0.71589171  0.70974364  0.73236763  0.53389305
  0.40644977  0.22850617  0.27428732  0.2889403   0.35057169  0.6215451
  0.72739103  0.49829968  0.30119027  0.20630749  0.57437567  0.57437567
  0.77625334         nan         nan  0.63227417  0.7800468   0.85141944
  0.91349722  0.7209074   0.58427875  0.5787439   0.7078619   0.7078619
  0.31119659  0.01410721  0.01410721  0.6976317   0.6976317   0.36819282
  0.3239973   0.29265842  0.41961066  0.28737397  0.36283845  0.36283845
  0.29155301  0.2021964 ]

Can this result be produced by numpy operations, without using a for loop?

Answer 1

You can do that using the rolling function of Pandas:

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

#Construct sample data
n = 50
n_miss = 20
win_size = 3
data = np.random.random(n)
data[np.random.randint(0, n-1, n_miss)] = None

windowed_mean = pd.Series(data).rolling(window=win_size, min_periods=1).mean()

print(pd.DataFrame({'Data': data, 'Windowed mean': windowed_mean}) )

Output:

        Data  Windowed mean
0   0.589376       0.589376
1   0.639173       0.614274
2   0.343534       0.524027
3   0.250329       0.411012
4   0.911952       0.501938
5        NaN       0.581141
6   0.224964       0.568458
7        NaN       0.224964
8   0.508419       0.366692
9   0.215418       0.361918
10       NaN       0.361918
11  0.638118       0.426768
12  0.587478       0.612798
13  0.097037       0.440878
14  0.688689       0.457735
15  0.858593       0.548107
16  0.408903       0.652062
17  0.448993       0.572163
18       NaN       0.428948
19  0.877453       0.663223
20       NaN       0.877453
21       NaN       0.877453
22  0.021798       0.021798
23  0.482054       0.251926
24  0.092387       0.198746
25  0.251766       0.275402
26  0.093854       0.146002
27       NaN       0.172810
28       NaN       0.093854
29       NaN            NaN
30  0.965669       0.965669
31  0.695999       0.830834
32       NaN       0.830834
33       NaN       0.695999
34       NaN            NaN
35  0.613727       0.613727
36  0.837533       0.725630
37       NaN       0.725630
38  0.782295       0.809914
39       NaN       0.782295
40  0.777429       0.779862
41  0.401355       0.589392
42  0.491709       0.556831
43  0.127813       0.340292
44  0.781625       0.467049
45  0.960466       0.623301
46  0.637618       0.793236
47  0.651264       0.749782
48  0.154911       0.481264
49  0.159145       0.321773