Baseline subtraction

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Imports

The tutorial below imports NumPy, Pandas, SciPy and PeakUtils.

import plotly.plotly as py
import plotly.graph_objs as go
import plotly.tools as tools
import plotly.figure_factory as ff

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import scipy
import peakutils

Import Data

As with our baseline detection example, we will import some data on milk production by month:

milk_data = pd.read_csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/monthly-milk-production-pounds.csv')
time_series = milk_data['Monthly milk production (pounds per cow)']
time_series = np.asarray(time_series)

df = milk_data[0:15]

table = ff.create_table(df)
py.iplot(table, filename='milk-production-dataframe')

Plot with Baseline

To subtract a baseline estimate from our data, it is a good idea to first we must first calculate the baseline values then plot the data with the baseline drawn in.

baseline_values = peakutils.baseline(time_series)

trace = go.Scatter(
    x=[j for j in range(len(time_series))],
    y=time_series,
    mode='lines',
    marker=dict(
        color='#547C66',
    ),
    name='Original Plot'
)

trace2 = go.Scatter(
    x=[j for j in range(len(time_series))],
    y=baseline_values,
    mode='markers',
    marker=dict(
        size=3,
        color='#EB55BF',
        symbol='circle-open'
    ),
    name='Baseline'
)

data = [trace, trace2]
py.iplot(data, filename='milk-production-plot-with-baseline')

Baseline Subtraction

baseline_values = peakutils.baseline(time_series)

trace = go.Scatter(
    x=[j for j in range(len(time_series))],
    y=time_series,
    mode='lines',
    marker=dict(
        color='#547C66',
    ),
    name='Original Plot'
)

trace2 = go.Scatter(
    x=[j for j in range(len(time_series))],
    y=baseline_values,
    mode='markers',
    marker=dict(
        size=3,
        color='#EB55BF',
        symbol='circle-open'
    ),
    name='Baseline'
)

data = [trace, trace2]
py.iplot(data, filename='milk-production-plot-with-baseline')

from IPython.display import display, HTML

display(HTML('<link href="//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:600,400,300,200|Inconsolata|Ubuntu+Mono:400,700" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />'))
display(HTML('<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://help.plot.ly/documentation/all_static/css/ipython-notebook-custom.css">'))

! pip install git+https://github.com/plotly/publisher.git --upgrade
import publisher
publisher.publish(
    'python-Baseline-Subtraction.ipynb', 'python/baseline-subtraction/', 'Baseline Subtraction | plotly',
    'Learn how to subtract baseline estimates from data in Python.',
    title='Baseline Subtraction in Python | plotly',
    name='Baseline Subtraction',
    language='python',
    page_type='example_index', has_thumbnail='false', display_as='peak-analysis', order=2,
    ipynb= '~notebook_demo/118')
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