make Clustering and FeatureExtraction inherit from TimeSeries

[bendichter]

I'd like to link Epochs with Clustering objects, but I can't because they are not TimeSeries objects. They have the necessary components-- timestamps and data (where the data is the cluster number id) so it should be doable to make the TimeSeries objects without changing the pynwb API.

[oruebel]

@bendichter generally I think if what used to be an "Interface" in NWB 1.x looks and feels like a TimeSeries then we should have a look at whether it should become one. I need to have a look at the implications of this for these types to make sure we don't add any new requirements to these types that will break things. Let me have a look and get back to you.

[bendichter]

Great, thanks. Making these objects TimeSeriess will have two benefits for me. 1) I can put them in acquisition if appropriate and 2) I can attach epochs to them

[oruebel]

@bendichter I agree with 2) and more broadly speaking, I think the advantage lies in the ability to unify APIs for these objects. Re 1), I think that would be more of an unintended side-effect. Clustering and FeatureExtraction are usually not raw acquistions so putting them there does not seem right.

[bendichter]

Yeah, 1 is more for the LFP object

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[neuromusic]

Clustering and FeatureExtraction are usually not raw acquistions

but they can be, e.g. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7933210/