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Hello friends and welcome to this tutorial on Matrices. |
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In python all matrix operations are done using arrays. |
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We have already seen in previous session that how arrays are better suited for certain mathematical operations. In this session we shall see how to perform efficient matrix operations using arrays. We shall see how to create them, how to initialize them, how to manipulate and use them to perform some basic image processing. For this tutorial we shall need the lena.png image. Hope you have the image with you. |
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Let's now start off. As you can see our lena image is on the desktop, so first let's navigate to the desktop by cd Desktop. |
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Let's now fire up Ipython, ipython -pylab |
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First things first, let's start by creating a normal array, type: |
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a equal to array([5, 8, 10, 13]) |
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let's check the value of a by typing |
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Here a is single dimension array, that is it has only one row. Let's now look at creating multi-dimensional arrays by |
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c = array([[11,12,13], [21,22,23], [31,32,33]]) |
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both c and a are arrays but with different dimensions or shape |
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we can check shape of arrays by using shape attribute of arrays. |
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A few other handy array initialization methods are also available to make life easier. |
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say we want to create an array of size 3x4 with all the elements initialized to 1, we use |
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b = ones((3, 4)) |
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and b is |
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similarly, suppose we already have an array, and we want to create another array with the same shape but with initial values equal to one, for eg, to get an array similar in shape to the array 'c' but with all elements as 1 we type: |
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d = ones_like(c) |
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and d is a 3x3 array with all values equal to 1 |
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Similarly there are functions like zeros and zeros_like which initialize array with all values being 0. One more useful function available is 'identity', it create identity matrix of given order |
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i = identity(3) |
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Note that identity takes just one argument since identity matrix is always a square matrix. |
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Now that we have covered creation of arrays, we shall see how to access and change values of particular elements. |
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to access the element 23 we type |
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It is at the second row of the third column of the matrix/array c. Note that index values of arrays also start from 0. |
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here ',' is used as separator for row and column value. Similarly any value from the array can be accessed. |
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to access particular row completely we simply skip the column value |
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gives us the entire second row. |
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We can assign a new value to an element, the same way we accessed it. For eg., |
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c[1, 1] = -22 |
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In order to change an entire row we type: |
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as we can see, all elements of the second row are now 0 |
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Accessing a row is straight forward we skip column part |
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but the same cannot be done to access columns. In order to access the whole column we have to use ':' |
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here the ':' part mentioned for row value symbolises entire row. |
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the c[1] we were using earlier can also be written as c[1,:] |
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':' actually takes two value. for any row or column we can mention |
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start:end values, and rows or columns starting for 'start' till 'end' will be returned. Lets try some examples for better understanding |
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results in rows starting from row zero(0) upto the second row and all columns. Note here that 'end', in this case, '2' will not be included in resulting array. |
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gives second and third row. |
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similarly we can try this on columns also: |
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This whole concept of accessing chunks of arrays is known as 'slicing' |
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There is one more interesting and handy feature of slicing. We saw earlier that how only ':' means entire row or column. |
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returns first two columns of all rows excepting the 0th row. |
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Now we shall look into one more powerful feature of arrays: 'striding'. |
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we add one more ':' to row or column part to specify a step size. |
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gives us first and third column. Since step size is two, it starts with the first column(blank before : means 0) and then we jump one column and then third(blank after : means end) |
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c[::2,:] returns a 2x3 array with the first and the third row |
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and c[::2, ::2] gives us a 2x2 array with the first and the third row and column |
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Lets us try to use these concepts of slicing and striding for doing some basic image manipulation |
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pylab has a function named imread to read images. We shall use the '(in)famous' lena image for our experimentation. Its there on desktop. |
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a is a numpy array with the 'RGB' values of each pixel |
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its a 512x512x3 array. |
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Lena's hat is not of much interest for us. Let's crop the image so that only her face is visible. And to do that we'll need some rough estimates of pixels. |
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now move your mouse pointer over the image, it gives us x, y coordinates of the mouse pointer's current location. We can get rough estimate of lena's face. We can observe that Lena's face begins from somewhere around 200, 200 and ends at 400, 400. Now cropping to these boundaries is simple |
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Next we shall try striding on this image. We shall resize the image by skipping alternate pixels. We have already seen how to skip alternate elements so, |
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To get transpose of this matrix write |
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The sum() function returns sum of all the elements of a matrix. |
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let's create one more array for checking more operations |
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+ takes care of matrix additions |
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it returns both eigen values and eigen vector of given matrix |
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This brings us to end of this session. We have covered Matrices |
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Initialization |
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Slicing |
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Striding |
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Functions available for arrays |
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We have seen |
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Welcome to the Tutorial on arrays. |
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As mentioned in [the previous tutorial] arrays are much faster and |
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more efficient. In this tutorial we shall look at creating arrays, |
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accessing elements and changing them. |
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Let's start with creating simple arrays. We've already seen how to |
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convert lists to arrays. Inputting a new array is similar to that. |
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Type /a/, to see what it is. |
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We enter a multi-dimensional array this way - |
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[21,22,23], |
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[31,32,33]]) |
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To see what c is, we just type c in the prompt. |
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To see the dimensions of the array c, we use c.shape |
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Now let us look at some special methods of creating an |
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array. There are various functions that allow us to create special |
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arrays. |
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The first one we shall look at is, /arange/. /arange/ is similar to |
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the range command, except that it returns an array and accepts |
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float arguments. |
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This is the array we just created. |
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In []: a.shape |
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Note that /a/ is one dimensional and has 10 elements, as expected. |
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We could also use a.shape to change the shape of the array a. |
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In []: a.shape = 2,5 |
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Note that the total size of new array must be unchanged. |
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We type a, to see what it looks like |
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In []: a |
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ones command can be used to get an array with all the entries as |
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ones. We pass it the shape of the array that we require. |
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Look at b, by printing it out. |
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In []: b |
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To create an array with all entries as ones, with it's shape |
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similar to an already existing array, we use the ones_like |
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command. |
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zeros and zeros_like are similar commands that can give you arrays |
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with all zeros. empty and empty_like give you empty arrays (arrays |
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with no initialization done.) |
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In []: b = zeros((3, 4)) |
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The identity command can be used to obtain a square array with |
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In []: identity(3) |
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To obtain a 2-D array, that is not necessarily square, eye command |
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can be used. Look at the documentation of eye (using eye?) for |
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more info. |
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Now that we have learnt how to create arrays, let's move on to |
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accessing elements and changing them. |
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Let's work with the c, array which we had already created. |
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Let's say we want to access the element 23 in c, we say |
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In []: c[1][2] |
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Note that this is similar to accessing an element inside a list of |
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lists. Also, note that counting again starts from 0. |
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Now, we can also change the element using a simple assignment. |
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Let's look at accessing more than one elements at a time. We begin |
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In []: c[1] gives us the second row. (counting starts from 0) |
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To get a column, we use a syntax that is similar to the one used |
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to access a single element. |
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In []: c[:,1], gives us the first column. |
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The colon specifies that we wish to obtain all elements in that |
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dimension from the array. |
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So, we could use a more explicit way to access the second row of |
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the array. |
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The colon can be used to access specific portions of the array, |
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similar to the way we do with lists. |
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Observe that we get the second and third columns from the second |
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row. As with lists, the number after the colon is excluded when |
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slicing a portion of the array. |
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Now, we get the second and third rows from the first column. |
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We get the second and third rows and the second and third |
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The numbers before and after the colons are optional. If the |
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This is essentially similar to the previous example. We are using |
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the default value i.e, the end, instead of specifying 3, |
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We have omitted specifying the zero before the colon, explicitly. |
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You may have observed the similarity of the semi-colon notation to |
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the notation used in lists. As expected, the semi-colon notation |
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termed as Striding. |
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To get every alternate row of c, starting from the first one, we say |
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We come to the end of this tutorial on arrays. In this tutorial, |
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you've learnt how to create arrays and access, change elements. |
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Thank you. |
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Hello friends and welcome to the second tutorial in the series of spoken tutorials on Python for Scientific computing. |
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In the previous tutorial we learnt about arrays and we told you that numpy arrays are faster and more efficient . In this tutorial we shall look at creating arrays, accessing elements and changing them. |
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Let's start with creating simple arrays. We've already seen how to convert lists to arrays. Inputting a new array is similarto that. |
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On your Ipython terminal type a = array open parenthesis and then open square brackets 5,8,10,13 close square brackets and close parenthesis . This create an array a . You can see what a is by typing a on the terminal . |
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The first one is the command arange which is similar to range except that it returns an array. |
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Ones can be use to get all entries as ones . We can pass it the shape of the array as required . |
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type b=ones open parenthesis , another open parenthesis , 3,4 , close second parenthesis and close first parenthesis . Look at b , by printing it out . |
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To create an array with all entries as ones, with it's shape similar to an already existing array, we use the ones_like |
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command. type b= ones_like in parenthesis a . |