Saving and Loading Preprocessed Data#

What you will learn in this tutorial:#

  • how to save your preprocessed data

  • how to load your preprocessed data

Preparations#

We import pymovements as the alias pm for convenience.

[1]:
import pymovements as pm
/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/pymovements/envs/v0.16.1/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tqdm/auto.py:21: TqdmWarning: IProgress not found. Please update jupyter and ipywidgets. See https://ipywidgets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user_install.html
  from .autonotebook import tqdm as notebook_tqdm

Let’s start by downloading our ToyDataset and loading in its data:

[2]:
dataset = pm.Dataset('ToyDataset', path='data/ToyDataset')
dataset.download()
dataset.load()
Using already downloaded and verified file: data/ToyDataset/downloads/pymovements-toy-dataset.zip
Extracting pymovements-toy-dataset.zip to data/ToyDataset/raw
100%|██████████| 20/20 [00:00<00:00, 45.10it/s]
[2]:
<pymovements.dataset.dataset.Dataset at 0x7fe0f592daf0>

Now let’s load in the data and do some preprocessing:

[3]:
dataset.pix2deg()
dataset.pos2vel()

dataset.gaze[0].frame.head()
100%|██████████| 20/20 [00:00<00:00, 22.56it/s]
100%|██████████| 20/20 [00:00<00:00, 47.18it/s]
[3]:
shape: (5, 8)
text_idpage_idtimestimuli_xstimuli_ypixelpositionvelocity
i64i64f64f64f64list[f64]list[f64]list[f64]
011.988145e6-1.0-1.0[206.8, 152.4][-10.697598, -8.852399][null, null]
011.988146e6-1.0-1.0[206.9, 152.1][-10.695183, -8.859678][null, null]
011.988147e6-1.0-1.0[207.0, 151.8][-10.692768, -8.866956][1.610194, -5.256267]
011.988148e6-1.0-1.0[207.1, 151.7][-10.690352, -8.869381][0.402548, -4.447465]
011.988149e6-1.0-1.0[207.0, 151.5][-10.692768, -8.874233][0.402561, -3.234462]

We have now added some additional columns for degrees in visual angle and velocity.

Saving#

Saving your preprocessed data is as simple as:

[4]:
dataset.save_preprocessed()
100%|██████████| 20/20 [00:00<00:00, 314.54it/s]
[4]:
<pymovements.dataset.dataset.Dataset at 0x7fe0f592daf0>

All of the preprocessed data is saved into this directory:

[5]:
dataset.paths.preprocessed
[5]:
PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed')

Let’s confirm it by printing all the new files in this directory:

[6]:
print(list(dataset.paths.preprocessed.glob('*/*/*')))
[PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_0_4.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_3_3.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_1_1.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_1_2.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_3_1.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_2_5.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_3_5.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_3_4.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_2_4.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_1_4.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_0_2.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_2_2.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_2_3.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_1_3.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_1_5.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_3_2.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_2_1.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_0_5.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_0_3.feather'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_0_1.feather')]

All of the files have been saved into the Dataset.paths.preprocessed as feather files.

If we want to save the data into an alternative directory and also use a different file format like csv we can use the following:

[7]:
dataset.save_preprocessed(preprocessed_dirname='preprocessed_csv', extension='csv')
100%|██████████| 20/20 [00:00<00:00, 40.57it/s]
[7]:
<pymovements.dataset.dataset.Dataset at 0x7fe0f592daf0>

Let’s confirm again by printing all the new files in this alternative directory:

[8]:
alternative_dirpath = dataset.path / 'preprocessed_csv'
print(list(alternative_dirpath.glob('*/*/*')))
[PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_1_5.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_2_4.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_0_5.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_3_1.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_1_3.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_2_3.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_2_1.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_0_4.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_0_2.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_1_4.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_0_1.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_2_2.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_2_5.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_1_2.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_3_2.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_0_3.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_3_3.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_3_4.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_1_1.csv'), PosixPath('data/ToyDataset/preprocessed_csv/aeye-lab-pymovements-toy-dataset-6cb5d66/data/trial_3_5.csv')]

Loading#

Now let’s imagine that this preprocessing and saving was done in another file and we only want to load the preprocessed data.

We simulate this by initializing a new dataset object. We don’t need to download any additional data.

[9]:
events_dataset = pm.Dataset('ToyDataset', path='data/ToyDataset')

The preprocessed data can now simply be loaded by setting preprocessed to True:

[10]:
events_dataset.load(preprocessed=True)

events_dataset.gaze[0].frame.head()
100%|██████████| 20/20 [00:00<00:00, 1316.69it/s]
[10]:
shape: (5, 8)
text_idpage_idtimestimuli_xstimuli_ypixelpositionvelocity
i64i64f64f64f64list[f64]list[f64]list[f64]
011.988145e6-1.0-1.0[206.8, 152.4][-10.697598, -8.852399][null, null]
011.988146e6-1.0-1.0[206.9, 152.1][-10.695183, -8.859678][null, null]
011.988147e6-1.0-1.0[207.0, 151.8][-10.692768, -8.866956][1.610194, -5.256267]
011.988148e6-1.0-1.0[207.1, 151.7][-10.690352, -8.869381][0.402548, -4.447465]
011.988149e6-1.0-1.0[207.0, 151.5][-10.692768, -8.874233][0.402561, -3.234462]

By default, the preprocessed directory and the feather extension will be chosen.

In case of alternative directory names or other file formats you can use the following:

[11]:
events_dataset.load(
    preprocessed=True,
    preprocessed_dirname='preprocessed_csv',
    extension='csv',
)
events_dataset.gaze[0].frame.head()
100%|██████████| 20/20 [00:00<00:00, 79.99it/s]
[11]:
shape: (5, 11)
text_idpage_idtimestimuli_xstimuli_ypixel_xpixel_yposition_xposition_yvelocity_xvelocity_y
i64i64f64f64f64f64f64f64f64f64f64
011.988145e6-1.0-1.0206.8152.4-10.697598-8.852399nullnull
011.988146e6-1.0-1.0206.9152.1-10.695183-8.859678nullnull
011.988147e6-1.0-1.0207.0151.8-10.692768-8.8669561.610194-5.256267
011.988148e6-1.0-1.0207.1151.7-10.690352-8.8693810.402548-4.447465
011.988149e6-1.0-1.0207.0151.5-10.692768-8.8742330.402561-3.234462

What you have learned in this tutorial:#

  • saving your preprocesed data using Dataset.save_preprocessed()

  • load your preprocesed data using Dataset.load(preprocessed=True)

  • using custom directory names by specifying preprocessed_dirname

  • using other file formats than the default feather format by specifying extension