Data preparation for NeurEco Discrete Dynamic with the command line interface#

The command line/terminal interface expects the data for model construction or evaluation in form of paths to files containing the data.

  • The supported formats are:

    • CSV with “;” or “,” separator;

    • NumPy .npy

    • MATLAB MAT-files .mat

  • Files contain the numerical data, allowed types: int, float, double

  • Any input (excitation) file contains a table:

    • First column corresponds to a time variable, it is a finite arithmetic sequence with spacing equal to time-step

    • Number of columns minus one (for time) is the number of input features (excitations)

    • Each line contains: a point of time and the values of input features (excitations) at this point of time

    • CSV files could have one additional line for a header

  • Any output file contains a table:

    • First column corresponds to a time variable:

      • It must be the same as in the corresponding input (excitation) file when provided for the construction of the model or the metrics calculation

      • It can be shorter and contain only the beginning of the time sequence in input (excitation) file when provided for the evaluation initialization.

    • Number of columns minus one (for time) is the number of output features

    • Each line contains: a point of time and the values of output features at this point of time

    • CSV files could have one additional line for a header

  • The time-step must be the same for all tables

  • When data represent multiple experiences, they are passed as multiple input (excitation) and output files. In this case pay attention to preserving the correspondence between input (excitation) and output files.

  • The time variable columns in different pairs on input/output files are not required to be the same, they can have different length and/or initial time-point, but the time-step must stay the same for all experiences.