Václav Šmilauer wrote:

> about a year ago I developed for my own purposes a routine for averaging
> irregularly-sampled data using gaussian average.

is this similar to Kernel Density estimation?

http://www.scipy.org/doc/api_docs/SciPy.stats.kde.gaussian_kde.html

In any case, it sounds more like an appropriate contribution to scipy 
than MPL.

> First it stores all data points in a (regular) grid.

What if your data points are not on a regular grid? Wouldn't this be a 
way to interpolate onto such a grid?

> Storing data in grid avoids searching all data points every
> time, only those within certain grid-range will be used.

another option would be to store the points in some sort of spatial 
index, like an r-tree.

> I should be able to convert it to accept numpy arrays,

key.

> wrap using Python
> API instead of boost::python

I'd consider Cython for that.

sounds like a useful module,

-Chris



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