Python regularise irregular time series with linear interpolation

Question

I have a time series in pandas that looks like this:

                     Values
1992-08-27 07:46:48    28.0  
1992-08-27 08:00:48    28.2  
1992-08-27 08:33         


        

Answer 1

The same result that @mstringer gets can be achieved purely in pandas. The trick is to first resample by second, using interpolation to fill in the intermediate values (.resample('s').interpolate()), and then upsample in 15-minute periods (.resample('15T').asfreq()).

import io
import pandas as pd

data = io.StringIO('''\
Values
1992-08-27 07:46:48,28.0  
1992-08-27 08:00:48,28.2  
1992-08-27 08:33:48,28.4  
1992-08-27 08:43:48,28.8  
1992-08-27 08:48:48,29.0  
1992-08-27 08:51:48,29.2  
1992-08-27 08:53:48,29.6  
1992-08-27 08:56:48,29.8  
1992-08-27 09:03:48,30.0
''')
s = pd.read_csv(data, squeeze=True)
s.index = pd.to_datetime(s.index)

res = s.resample('s').interpolate().resample('15T').asfreq().dropna()
print(res)

Output:

1992-08-27 08:00:00    28.188571
1992-08-27 08:15:00    28.286061
1992-08-27 08:30:00    28.376970
1992-08-27 08:45:00    28.848000
1992-08-27 09:00:00    29.891429
Freq: 15T, Name: Values, dtype: float64