How to add a new row to an empty numpy array

The way to “start” the array that you want is: Which is an empty array but it has the proper dimensionality. Then be sure to append along axis 0: But, @jonrsharpe is right. In fact, if you’re going to be appending in a loop, it would be much faster to append to a list as … Read more

Official abbreviation for: import scipy as sp/sc

The “official” answer, according to the Scipy documentation, is that there is really no reason to ever since all of the interesting functions in Scipy are actually located in the submodules, which are not automatically imported. Therefore, the recommended method is to use then, functions can be called with Personally, I always use and live with … Read more

Moving average or running mean

UPDATE: more efficient solutions have been proposed, uniform_filter1d from scipy being probably the best among the “standard” 3rd-party libraries, and some newer or specialized libraries are available too. You can use np.convolve for that: Explanation The running mean is a case of the mathematical operation of convolution. For the running mean, you slide a window along the input and compute the mean of … Read more