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+## Matrix Profiles Are Cool
+... and I've been interested in them going on a year now. The mathematics involved are deceptively
+simple, relying only on a z-normalized euclidean distance comparison between Fourier transformed
+subsequences. After wrapping my head around that basic primitive I dove into [the literature][1]. Much
+of the early academic literature regarding the MP is devoted to speeding up the calculation of
+Fourier transformations on a sliding window of subsequences.
+
+This repository is a collection of code relating to the [stumpy tutorial][2]. Some of it is simply
+copied in as I follow along, I have tried to mark as clearly as possible where I make my own
+extrapolations. All data related to the tutorial is also mirrored in a data directory for each entry.
+
+
+[1]: https://www.cs.ucr.edu/%7Eeamonn/MatrixProfile.html "Resources and papers on the Matrix Profile"
+[2]: https://stumpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials.html "stumpy tutorial"
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