Understanding what period refers to in trader_rsi - php

I am using the PEAR extension trader for PHP and in particular the trader_rsifeature Link to manual. Now one of the inputs is a time period but Im not sure what it relates to i.e. days, minutes etc.
At the minute my array of data spans about 5 hours so I am a little unsure what to input to get the correct output.
UPDATE
Just wondering if I have an array containing 100 sets of prices, would the period be 100?
Any ideas

The time period value will set the periods used to calculate the RSI and is based on the data you supplied to $real. So if you have 20 daily values and set period to the standard 14 the RSI will be calculated from the first 14 days/values and from there on build on that as base for the next 6 values.

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What is optimum query to calculate difference between two rows in mysql

Context:
Data is loaded in table every 5 minutes. Each row of data represents a given department with number of calls received so far for the last 30 minutes i.e. a running count that resets every 30 minutes.
Problem:
Need to a query that will show running count for last 15 minutes.
Hint:
We can get a running count for last 15 minutes if we can show how many calls were actually received in each 5 minute load. We get that "actual" count by subtracting the previous interval (row) with the new incoming interval (row).
My question:
What is best way to solve this that will be the fastest in terms of execution? We are at the initial design stage, so this means we can either work from one table, or work with two separate tables (one for previous, and one for new).
Ultimately the result (difference) needs to be inserted in a different table.

Convert mysql irregular time series data to regular sequence

I have a table of temperature data, updated every 5-15 mins by multiple sensors.
The data is essentially this: unique id, device(sensor id), timestamp, value(float)
The sensors does not have an accurate clock, so the readings are doomed to skew over time, so I'm unable to use things like group by hour in mysql to get a reading of the last 24h of temperature data.
My solution as a php programmer would be to make a pre-processor that reads all the un-processed readings and "join them" in a table.
There must be others than me who has this need to "downscale" x-minute/hour reads down to one per hour, to use in lets say graphing.
My problem is how do I calculate the rounded hour value from one or several readings.
For example, I have 12 readings over 2,5 hours, and I need an explicit value for each whole hour for all these readings.
Data:
Date Device Value
2016-06-27 12:15:15, TA, 23.5
2016-06-27 12:30:19, TA, 23.1
2016-06-27 12:45:35, TA, 22.9
2016-06-27 13:00:55, TA, 22.5
2016-06-27 13:05:15, TA, 22.8
2016-06-27 13:35:35, TA, 23.2
I'm not that much into statistical math, so "standard deviation" and the likes are citys in Russia for me.
Also, the devices go to sleep sometimes, and does not always transmit a temperature.
Feel free to ask me to add info to the question, as I'm not sure what you guys need to answer this.
The most important parts is this:
1. I'm using MySQL, and that's not going to change.
2. I'm hoping for a solution (or tips) in php, though tips in many other languages also would help my understanding. I'm primarily a PHP programmer though, so answers in that language would be most appreciated.
Edit: I would like to specify a few points.
Because the time data recorded from the sensors may be inaccurate, I'm relying on the SQL insert time. That way the time is controlled by one device only, the controller that's inserting the data.
For example, if I select 30 timestamp/value pairs in a 24h period, I would like to "combine" these to 24 timestamp/value pairs, using an average to combine the overflowing data.
I'm not that good to explain, but I hope this makes it clearer.
Also, would love either a clean SQL way of doing it, but also a PHP way of looping through 30 rows to produce 24 whole hour rows of data.
My goal is to have one row for every hour, with an accurate timestamp and temperature value. Mainly because most graphing libraries expect that kind of input. Especially when I have more than one series in a graph.
At some point, I may find it useful to show a graph for let's say the last six hours, with a 15 minute accuracy.
The clue is that I don't want to change the raw data, just find a way to extract/compute linear results from it.
How I would try to handle this is;
Take day start value; 01/01/2016 00:00:00 and do a 'between' 'sql' in MySQL, progressing every hour. So the first 'sql' would be like;
'select avg(temp_value) from table where date between 01/01/2016 00:00:00 and 01/01/2016 00:59:99' and progress on by the hour.
The sql isn't correct, and the entire 24hr period can be written out programmatically, but I think this will start you on your way.

How to get max in and max out values from rrd files in single rrd command

We have MRTG set up to monitor the network .So for that we are using RRD tool to fetch an plotting the graph data. Now i have created a script which actually fetch data from RRD files , so from fetched data i need max in and and max out in 24 Hours. Now with these max values , i calculate the badwidth utilization for each customer/link.
Now my question is there, single rrd command to fetch max in , max out, min in and min out values from RRD files.
Since i am newbee to this RRD so i would appreciate if command is also provided with your solution.
Please help.
With an MRTG-created RRD files, the 'in' and 'out' datasources are named 'ds0' and 'ds1' respectively. There exist 8 RRAs; these correspond to granularities of 5min, 30min, 2hr and 1day with both AVG and MAX rollups. By default, these will be of length 400 (older versions of MRTG) or length 800 (newer versions of MRTG) which means that you are likely to have a time window of 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months and 2 years respectively for these RRAs. (Note that RRDTool 1.5 may omit the 1pdp MAX RRA as this is functionally identical the the 1pdp AVG RRA)
What this means for you is the following:
You do not have a MIN type RRA. If working over the most recent 2 days, then this can be calculated from the highest-granularity AVG RRA. Otherwise, your data will be increasingly inaccurate.
Your lowest-granularity RRA holds MAX values on a per-day basis. However these days are split at midnight UCT rather than midnight local time. You do not specify which 24hr windows you need to calculate for.
IF you are only interested in claculating for the most recent 24h period, then all calculations can use the highest-granularity RRA.
Note that, because step boundaries are all calculated using UCT, unless you live in that timezone you can't use FETCH or XPORT to obtain the data you need as you need to summarise over a general time window.
To retrieve the data you can use something like this:
rrdtool graph /dev/null -e 00:00 -s "end-1day" --step 300
DEF:inrmax=target.rrd:ds0:AVERAGE:step=300:reduce=MAXIMUM
DEF:outrmax=target.rrd:ds1:AVERAGE:step=300:reduce=MAXIMUM
DEF:inrmin=target.rrd:ds0:AVERAGE:step=300:reduce=MINIMUM
DEF:outrmin=target.rrd:ds1:AVERAGE:step=300:reduce=MINIMUM
VDEF:inmax=inrmax,MAXIMUM
VDEF:inmin=inrmin,MINIMUM
VDEF:outmax=outrmax,MAXIMUM
VDEF:outmin=outrmin,MINIMUM
LINE:inrmax
PRINT:inmax:"In Max=%lf"
PRINT:inmin:"In Min=%lf"
PRINT:outmax:"Out Max=%lf"
PRINT:outmin:"Out Min=%lf"
A few notes on this:
We are using 'graph' so that we can use a generic time window, not dependent on a step boundary
Use rrdgraph in order to use a generic time window; fetch and xport will work on step boundaries.
We are summarising the highest-granularity RRA on the fly
We use /dev/null as we dont actually want the graph image
We have to define a dummy line in the graph else we get nothing
The DEF lines specify the highest-granularity step and a reduction CF. You might be able to skip this part if you're using 5min step
We calculate the summary values using VDEF and then print them on stdout using PRINT
The first line of the output will be the graph size; you can discard this
When you call rrdtool::graph from your php script, simply pass it the parameters in the same way as you would for commandline operation. If you're not using Linux you might need to use something other than /dev/null.

PHP / Mysql, N number of timestamps + value, cut down to 24 / 1 per 2 weeks

This might be a weird question but let me try to explain best I can.
I have a table in my database and this table contains N number of records the table is simple its laid out as follows:
ID, Time, Data
So the end goal is to out put a Graph for a yearly period based off the values in this table. Now this wouldn't usually be such a big deal but the values in the table are limitless for a year, but there is no pattern to how frequent these will be entered.
In theory the person responsible for updating this table will be doing it once per 2 weeks but this can not be relied upon because I know they wont, so I want to dump all the values from the table then create and array from the results with only 2 values per month one for the 14th and one for the 28th so this will cover all months.
Anyway so I figure,
Select * FROM table
For each
.... take value closest to 14th
.... take value closest to 28th
.... Dump each into new array
But how would you go about doing this in PHP I can't work out how you would get the closest value to each day for that month only and limit it to 2, the hard thing for me is getting my head around if they didn't update it in say 4 weeks what then? use the last value I guess.
Has anyone done this before?

clever way to increment a value in a large array

Hep hey!
I am building an statistic overview of how many people is supposed to be at work at any given 5 minuts interval on a given day.
Say, we have 6 people working at 10.50, same at 10.55, then one go home and we got 5 people working at 11.00
Now, the way i imagined to keep track of this was to have an array with 5x12x24 elements (1 element per 5 minuts for an 24 hour interval), where i run through each employees shift time and increment the elements for the given 5 min intervals their shift takes them over.
(say a person works from 9.00 to 10.00, then i will increment the values from 9.00, 9.05, 9.10 up to 10.00 by one)
I need the data to make a diagram later, that is why i store it in an array.
Now my question is, which way is the fastest to do this?
Should i start out with an array which contains all the time elements and then increment it as i run through the shift hours of the employees ($arr['9.05']++) or should i start out by making an empty array and just check if the value of the time exsists, if not, create that element and if it does, increment it?
Or is there in general a smarter way to do this?
I ask as i can see this becomming a pretty heavy operation if you have 50+ employees which have to run through this function, so the smarter it can be made, the better :)
PS. the shift times comes from a database that i do not have access to, so i only have the timestamps of the start of the shit and the finish.

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