python - Count moving average in circle 360 degrees

Question

This is my data

degree, value

0.0,0.42105263157894735
1.0,0.47368421052631576
2.0,0.47368421052631576
3.0,0.47368421052631576
4.0,0.5
5.0,0.5
6.0,0.5
7.0,0.47368421052631576
8.0,0.47368421052631576
9.0,0.47368421052631576
10.0,0.39473684210526316
..............
350.0,0.5263157894736842
351.0,0.5526315789473685
352.0,0.47368421052631576
353.0,0.47368421052631576
354.0,0.47368421052631576
355.0,0.4473684210526316
356.0,0.4473684210526316
357.0,0.4473684210526316
358.0,0.42105263157894735
359.0,0.42105263157894735

So, it is circle from 0 to 359 degrees.
I want to build moving average using these values. I do it with:

df['smoothing'] = df['value'].rolling(window=10).mean()   

    degree      value  smoothed
0      0.0   0.526316       NaN
1      1.0   0.000000       NaN
2      2.0   0.000000       NaN
3      3.0   0.000000       NaN
4      4.0   0.000000       NaN
..     ...        ...       ...
355  355.0   0.000000  0.000000
356  356.0   0.447368  0.044737
357  357.0   0.500000  0.094737
358  358.0   0.526316  0.147368
359  359.0   0.500000  0.197368

But there is a problem: I loose values from 0 to 9. They are important for me.
So, my script must use degrees 351,352,353,354,355 and so on to count average for degrees 0,1,2,3....

I expect output:

    degree      value                     smoothed
0      0.0   0.526316  mean value of 351-0 degrees
1      1.0   0.000000  mean value of 352-1 degrees
2      2.0   0.000000  mean value of 353-2 degrees
3      3.0   0.000000  mean value of 354-3 degrees
4      4.0   0.000000  mean value of 355-4 degrees
................
and so on    

How to do it? Thank you.

Answer 1

It seems like, logically, you're looking for a circular sliding window, where, for example, 120 would average things from 101 to 120, but 0 would average things from 351 to 0.

Unfortunately, Pandas doesn't support that, but you can translate the values to force it to do so. Simply copy the value 351 to -9, 352 to -8, and so on, then take a rolling average (obviously keeping the positive angles only)