[SciPy-User] Status of TimeSeries SciKit

[Skipper Seabold]

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Pierre GM <pgmdevlist at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Wes McKinney wrote:
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> > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Pierre GM <pgmdevlist at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:30 PM, Paul Bilokon wrote:
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> >>> Hi,
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> >>> I would like to find out about the status of the TimeSeries SciKit. It looks like it hasn't been updated for some years. Has the development ceased?
> >>
> >> Years is an overstatement...
> >> The scikits hasn't been updated in a while, yes. The two developpers got really busy on other projects (like, jobs to pay bills) and  unfortunately don't  currently have the time to keep it up-to-date.
> >> *If* I could find a job that would leave me a bit of time to work on it, I'd try to support the new date time type. But until then, further developments are in limbo and support limited.
> >> That doesn't mean that you'd be on your own, questions will still be answered...
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> >
> > hi Paul,
> >
> > Skipper and I (statsmodels) relatively recently discussed moving
> > scikits.timeseries to GitHub and maintaining it there since we work on
> > models for time series analysis.
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> Er…
> https://github.com/pierregm/scikits.timeseries/
> https://github.com/pierregm/scikits.timeseries-sandbox/
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Great. Is this the "official" advertised repo? I remember there was
some chatter about this a few months back but lost track of the
thread.

> the second one is actually a branch of the first one (I know, it's silly with git, but I was only learning at the time), that provides some new functionalities like a 'time step' in addition to the 'time unit' (so that you can define regular series w/ one entry every 5min, say), but is not completely baked on the C side (I had some issues subclassing the C ndarray).
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> > I work very actively on time
> > series-related functionality in pandas so it might not even be
> > unthinkable to merge together the projects (scikits.timeseries and
> > pandas) and integrate all the numpy.datetime64 stuff once the dust
> > settles there. Just thinking out loud.
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> That's an idea.
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Any thoughts on the idea? Do you think it's reasonable and/or
beneficial? There is also some talk with the scikits.learn and
scikits.statsmodels to drop the scikits namespace, which would be
better as a collective decision, so the merging could be a part of
this? I use both packages now, and I, for one, would love to see them
come together and share to the extent this is feasible. Others? I
especially like the plotting stuff since it's great but I've had to
make a few local patches here and there for mpl changes.

Skipper