thinst: Thin data spatiotemporally

Description

Thin points spatiotemporally, spatially, or temporally (hence 'thinst', 'thin' + 'ST' for spatiotemporal).
Spatial thinning will remove points so that no two points are within a given spatial threshold of each other.
Temporal thinning will remove points so that no two points are within a given temporal threshold of each other.
Spatiotemporal thinning will remove points so that no two points are within a given spatial threshold and within a given temporal threshold of each other. Accordingly, two points may overlap spatially, provided that they do not overlap temporally, and vice versa.

Thinning is set up to retain the maximum number of points.

Thinning (whether it is spatiotemporal, spatial, or temporal) is conducted with the thinst function with the type of thinning determined by the input parameters.

Simple plots of points are also included within the plots module.

Installation

pip install thinst

Import

For general use, the line below will load the function thinst from the package of the same name. from thinst import thinst

To access the underlying functions, use: from thinst.core import *

To access the plotting functions, use: from thinst.plots import *

Documentation

For more information on the thinst function (or any other function) use one of the following:
?thinst
help(thinst)

Example usage

An exemplar illustrating how to use thinst is available on GitHub at: https://github.com/JSBigelow/thinst/blob/main/exemplar.ipynb

License

MIT