[SciPy-user] converting hourly series to annual unneccessaryly masks data

[Pierre GM]

Timmie,
The documentation is still a bit lacking, sorry. Still, in the  
docstring of convert, you can see that if you don't precise a func  
input parameter, the series is converted to 2D, as stated:
`
         If ``func`` is not given, the output series group the points  
of the
         initial series that share the same new date. For example, if  
the
         initial series has a daily frequency and is 1D, the output  
series is
         2D.
`

In your case, each line corresponds to a year, and each column to one  
given hour, starting at 01/01-01:00 (or 00:00, I can't remmbr right  
now).
Check the shape of your atest variable:

 >>> atest.shape
(3, 8784)

Note that 8784 = 366*24: we actually use years of 366 days in that  
case, to take leap years into account.
The missing data you observe comes from the facts that:
1. You're not starting at 01/01:00-00, but 8 days later
2. We are using this 366d year: as there are no leap year in your  
range of years, the last 24 data of each line will be masked.
3. You don't finish at 12/31-23:00, but (365-8) days earlier.

So all is well and works as expected (developer-wise), no need for a  
ticket (good reflex, though).

Now, of course, you need to tell us what you were expecting, and what  
kind of average you wanted to calculate.



>  test = ts.time_series(np.arange(17520), start_date=ts.now('H'))
> atest = test.convert('A')
>
> In [87]: test
> Out[87]:
> timeseries([    0     1     2 ..., 17517 17518 17519],
>           dates = [08-Jan-2009 18:00 ... 08-Jan-2011 17:00],
>           freq  = H)
>
>
> In [88]: atest
> Out[88]:
> timeseries(
> [[-- -- -- ..., -- -- --]
> [8574 8575 8576 ..., -- -- --]
> [17334 17335 17336 ..., -- -- --]],
>           dates =
> [2009 ... 2011],
>           freq  = A-DEC)
>
> I entered it at:
> http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/ticket/84
>
> I'd be glad to receive a comment on waht is happening here.
>
> Thanks in advanve.
> Timmie
>
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