summarize() vs. interpolate()

[SB-511]

Hi together,

thanks for the very helpful package!

I'm not quite sure what .summarize() does, especially in comparison to .interpolate().
The description in readthedocs for summarize() is not really clear about this (- at least for me).

Thanks in advance for the clarification :)

[gutzbenj]

Dear @SB-511 ,

thanks for letting us know!

• summarize stitches together the time series of multiple stations taking either one of the closest available actual values of those stations per timestamp
• in contrary interpolate does actual interpolation of the values of the closest stations which usually results in a unique new interpolated value per timestamp

The benchmark at benchmarks/summary_over_time.py is meant to visualize how summarize would combine a number of stations.

I think I'll update the documentation in the coming weeks...

[SB-511]

Dear @gutzbenj ,

thank you very much, now it's clear!
(The .py in /benchmarks is very useful, maybe it's worth linking it in the docs?)

[SB-511]

In addition to this:

Maybe it already helps to add the image which is generated in the benchmark to the docs... :)