Time Series Indexing

Table of Contents

Preface

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An Introduction to Time Series and the Required Python Knowledge

Technical requirements

Understanding time series

Time series are everywhere

Essential definitions

Time series data mining

Comparing time series

The Euclidean distance

The Chebyshev distance

What is an index and why do we need indexing?

The Python knowledge that we are going to need

Timing Python code

An introduction to Anaconda

The required Python packages

Setting up our environment

Printing package versions

Creating sample data

Publicly available time series data

How time series are processed

Reading time series from disk

Is all data numeric?

Do all lines have the same amount of data?

Creating subsequences

Visualizing time series

Working with the Matrix ...