Binning a numpy array

Question

I have a numpy array which contains time series data. I want to bin that array into equal partitions of a given length (it is fine to drop the last partition if it is not t

Answer 1

Just use reshape and then mean(axis=1).

As the simplest possible example:

import numpy as np

data = np.array([4,2,5,6,7,5,4,3,5,7])

print data.reshape(-1, 2).mean(axis=1)

More generally, we'd need to do something like this to drop the last bin when it's not an even multiple:

import numpy as np

width=3
data = np.array([4,2,5,6,7,5,4,3,5,7])

result = data[:(data.size // width) * width].reshape(-1, width).mean(axis=1)

print result