sensortoolkit.qc._duplicate_removal

This module contains a method for identifiying and removing duplicated timestamp entries in datasets. Since SDFS datasets utilize a pandas DatetimeIndex, duplicated timestamp entries may cause indexing issues when accessing and assigning values for duplicate timestamps (e.g., computing averages).


@Author:
Samuel Frederick, NSSC Contractor (ORAU)
U.S. EPA / ORD / CEMM / AMCD / SFSB
Created:

Thu Feb 18 13:19:54 2021

Last Updated:

Tue Jul 13 09:39:18 2021

Functions

remove_duplicates

Locate and remove duplicate timestamp entries if present in passed dataframe.