W03_04_tasks_and_inputs

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Tasks and Inputs | Computational Movement Analysis: Patterns and Trends in Environmental Data

Tasks and Inputs | Computational Movement Analysis: Patterns and Trends in Environmental Data

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[mariottomarina]

Question: Input for Similarity measures in Task 6

I'm stuck at Task 6. Maybe some of you can help me.
So far I was able to seperate the pedestrian file into seperate matrices (one matrix for each trajID). But I still have the columns TrajID, E, N and DatetimeUTC.
When I try to compute the similarity measures with the matrices, I get an error message. I think this input for the functions is wrong as there can only be one vector for traj1 and one for traj2 (i guess). My problem is that i don't know which values i need to keep and which to toss for the calculations to work. Does anyone know which values I need to feed the function?

[nic-steinm]

Hi Marina, I used the select() function to select the columns E and N. I hope this helps :)

[nic-steinm]

Oh, and then you still need to convert your data table into a matrix so the algorithms can read them.

[ratnanil]

As @nic-steinm mentioned, the functions cannot handle Datetime (and therefore assumes that both trajectories are sampled concurrently) and are passed as a matrix.

[ratnanil]

An alternative would be to convert DateTimeUTC into integer (POSCXct is nothing else than the number of seconds after a specific date). All functions allow multidimensional inputs, so the third dimension would be time