Synchronize Dataset - Multiple users, multiple timestamps - android

I'm trying to understand what is the best way to go about doing this:
Basically I will have a bunch of Android/iOS users who will be logging sensor data on their phone, except each user will have its own timestamp depending on when people start the app etc. So say I have two users:
User 1: (5,45), (6,34), (8,32)
User 2: (5,35), (7,32), (9,32)
The format is (time t, and some arbitrary value).
What would be the best way to synchronize the two datasets? Do I have to write an algorithm which is then going to go back and say on User 2, insert the following entry (6,35). So eventually the new data looks like:
User 1: (5,45), (6,34), (7,34), (8,32), (9,32)
User 2: (5,35), (6,35), (7,32), (8,32), (9,32)
This could be very data intensive though, because I am expecting to have about 300 users, and each will have about 36,000 data entries. Any advice would be appreciated - also something I could do on the app side that could help that would be appreciated.
I believe I am going to have to do something like this when I have all my data - but since this is an actively developing project I thought I'd get some advice first.

You could create a DataFrame from each user's data. Then store them all in a Panel. Pandas will line them all up based on the timestamp and you can use the forward fill method, ffill, to propagate the values:
In [62]: df1 = DataFrame([45,34,32], index=[5,6,8], columns=['value'])
In [63]: df2 = DataFrame([35,32,32], index=[5,7,9], columns=['value'])
In [64]: p = Panel({'user1': df1, 'user2': df2})
In [75]: p.ffill().to_frame().unstack()
Out[75]:
user1 user2
minor value value
major
5 45 35
6 34 35
7 34 32
8 32 32
9 32 32
Or, you could do the same thing using just Series and DataFrames. I guess it depends on what you want to do with it:
In [78]: s1 = Series([45,34,32], index=[5,6,8])
In [79]: s2 = Series([35,32,32], index=[5,7,9])
In [80]: df = DataFrame([s1,s2])
In [81]: df
Out[81]:
5 6 7 8 9
0 45 34 NaN 32 NaN
1 35 NaN 32 NaN 32
In [82]: df = DataFrame([s1,s2]).T
In [83]: df
Out[83]:
0 1
5 45 35
6 34 NaN
7 NaN 32
8 32 NaN
9 NaN 32
In [84]: df.ffill()
Out[84]:
0 1
5 45 35
6 34 35
7 34 32
8 32 32
9 32 32

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