Traja is a trajectory analysis and visualization tool
Project description
traja
Trajectory Analysis in Python
traja extends the capability of pandas DataFrame specific for animal trajectory analysis in 2D, and provides convenient interfaces to other geometric analysis packages (eg, shapely).
Introduction
The traja Python package is a toolkit for the numerical characterisation and analysis of the trajectories of moving animals. Trajectory analysis is applicable in fields as diverse as optimal foraging theory, migration, and behavioural mimicry (e.g. for verifying similarities in locomotion). A trajectory is simply a record of the path followed by a moving animal. Trajr operates on trajectories in the form of a series of locations (as x, y coordinates) with times. Trajectories may be obtained by any method which provides this information, including manual tracking, radio telemetry, GPS tracking, and motion tracking from videos.
The goal of this package (and this document) is to aid biological researchers, who may not have extensive experience with Python, to analyse trajectories without being handicapped by a limited knowledge of Python or programming. However, a basic understanding of Python is useful.
If you use traja in your publications, please cite [add citation].
Installation and setup
To install traja onto your system, run
pip install traja
or download the zip file and run the graphical user interface [coming soon].
Import traja into your Python script or via the Python command-line with import traja
.
Trajectories with traja
traja stores trajectories in pandas DataFrames, allowing any pandas functions to be used.
Load trajectory with x,y and time coordinates:
import traja
df = traja.read_file('coords.csv')
Once a DataFrame is loaded, use the .traja
accessor to access the visualization and analysis methods:
df.traja.plot(title='Cage trajectory')
Random walk
Generate random walks with
df = traja.generate(n=1000, step_length=2)
df.traja.plot()
Demo
Coming soon.
Acknowledgements
traja code implementation and analytical methods (particularly rediscretize_points
) are heavily inspired by Jim McLean's R package trajr. Many thanks to Jim for his feedback.
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