calculate exponential moving average in python

Question

I have a range of dates and a measurement on each of those dates. I\'d like to calculate an exponential moving average for each of the dates. Does anybody know how to do t

Answer 1

A fast way (copy-pasted from here) is the following:

def ExpMovingAverage(values, window):
    """ Numpy implementation of EMA
    """
    weights = np.exp(np.linspace(-1., 0., window))
    weights /= weights.sum()
    a =  np.convolve(values, weights, mode='full')[:len(values)]
    a[:window] = a[window]
    return a

Answer 2

May be shortest:

#Specify decay in terms of span
#data_series should be a DataFrame

ema=data_series.ewm(span=5, adjust=False).mean()