Make 2D Numpy array from coordinates

Question

I have data points that represent a coordinates for a 2D array (matrix). The points are regularly gridded, except that data points are missing from some grid positions.

For example, consider some XYZ data that fits on a regular 0.1 grid with shape (3, 4). There are gaps and missing points, so there are 5 points, and not 12:

import numpy as np
X = np.array([0.4, 0.5, 0.4, 0.4, 0.7])
Y = np.array([1.0, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.2])
Z = np.array([3.3, 2.5, 3.6, 3.8, 1.8])
# Evaluate the regular grid dimension values
Xr = np.linspace(X.min(), X.max(), np.round((X.max() - X.min()) / np.diff(np.unique(X)).min()) + 1)
Yr = np.linspace(Y.min(), Y.max(), np.round((Y.max() - Y.min()) / np.diff(np.unique(Y)).min()) + 1)
print('Xr={0}; Yr={1}'.format(Xr, Yr))
# Xr=[ 0.4  0.5  0.6  0.7]; Yr=[ 1.   1.1  1.2]

What I would like to see is shown in this image (backgrounds: black=base-0 index; grey=coordinate value; colour=matrix value; white=missing).

Here's what I have, which is intuitive with a for loop:

ar = np.ma.array(np.zeros((len(Yr), len(Xr)), dtype=Z.dtype), mask=True)
for x, y, z in zip(X, Y, Z):
    j = (np.abs(Xr -  x)).argmin()
    i = (np.abs(Yr -  y)).argmin()
    ar[i, j] = z
print(ar)
# [[3.3 2.5 -- --]
#  [3.6 -- -- --]
#  [3.8 -- -- 1.8]]    

Is there a more NumPythonic way of vectorising the approach to return a 2D array ar? Or is the for loop necessary?

Answer 1

You can do it on one line with np.histogram2d

data = np.histogram2d(Y, X, bins=[len(Yr),len(Xr)], weights=Z)
print(data[0])
[[ 3.3  2.5  0.   0. ]
 [ 3.6  0.   0.   0. ]
 [ 3.8  0.   0.   1.8]]

Answer 2

You can use X and Y to create the X-Y coordinates on a 0.1 spaced grid extending from the min to max of X and min to max of Y and then inserting Z's into those specific positions. This would avoid using linspace to get Xr and Yr and as such must be quite efficient. Here's the implementation -

def indexing_based(X,Y,Z):
    # Convert X's and Y's to indices on a 0.1 spaced grid
    X_int = np.round((X*10)).astype(int)
    Y_int = np.round((Y*10)).astype(int)
    X_idx = X_int - X_int.min()
    Y_idx = Y_int - Y_int.min()

    # Setup output array and index it with X_idx & Y_idx to set those as Z
    out = np.zeros((Y_idx.max()+1,X_idx.max()+1))
    out[Y_idx,X_idx] = Z

    return out

Runtime tests -

This section compare the indexing-based approach against the other np.histogram2d based solution for performance -

In [132]: # Create unique couples X-Y (as needed to work with histogram2d)
     ...: data = np.random.randint(0,1000,(5000,2))
     ...: data1 = data[np.lexsort(data.T),:]
     ...: mask = ~np.all(np.diff(data1,axis=0)==0,axis=1)
     ...: data2 = data1[np.append([True],mask)]
     ...: 
     ...: X = (data2[:,0]).astype(float)/10
     ...: Y = (data2[:,1]).astype(float)/10
     ...: Z = np.random.randint(0,1000,(X.size))
     ...: 

In [133]: def histogram_based(X,Y,Z): # From other np.histogram2d based solution
     ...:   Xr = np.linspace(X.min(), X.max(), np.round((X.max() - X.min()) / np.diff(np.unique(X)).min()) + 1)
     ...:   Yr = np.linspace(Y.min(), Y.max(), np.round((Y.max() - Y.min()) / np.diff(np.unique(Y)).min()) + 1)
     ...:   data = np.histogram2d(Y, X, bins=[len(Yr),len(Xr)], weights=Z)
     ...:   return data[0]
     ...: 

In [134]: %timeit histogram_based(X,Y,Z)
10 loops, best of 3: 22.8 ms per loop

In [135]: %timeit indexing_based(X,Y,Z)
100 loops, best of 3: 2.11 ms per loop

Answer 3

You could use a scipy coo_matrix. It allows you to construct a sparse matrix from coordinates and data. See examples on the attached link.

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy-0.15.1/reference/generated/scipy.sparse.coo_matrix.html

Hope that helps.