Quora upvotes trends Hackerrank challenge

Question

The following code is my solution to an old problem I found today.

Input Format

Line 1: Two integers, N (1 ≤ N ≤ 10⁶) and window size K (1 ≤ K ≤ N)
Line 2: N positive integers of upvote counts, each integer less than or equal to 10⁹

Output Format

Line 1..: N - K + 1 integers, one integer for each window's result on each line

Sample Input

5 3
1 2 3 1 1

Sample Output

3
0
-2

Explanation

For the first window of [1, 2, 3], there are 3 non-decreasing subranges and 0 non-increasing, so the answer is 3. For the second window of [2, 3, 1], there is 1 non-decreasing subrange and 1 non-increasing, so the answer is 0. For the third window of [3, 1, 1], there is 1 non-decreasing subrange and 3 non-increasing, so the answer is -2.

I could solve the problem's logic and the initial test cases passed. But for the longer test cases, it gives timeout.

Are there any ways I can optimize parts of the following code?

def window_result(arr, size):
    num_inc = 0
    count = 0
    for elem in arr:
        if elem == 'i' or elem == 'e':
            count += 1
        else:
            num_inc += (count*(count+1))/2
            count = 0
    num_inc += (count*(count+1))/2
    num_dec = 0
    count = 0
    for elem in arr:
        if elem == 'd' or elem == 'e':
            count += 1
        else:
            num_dec += (count*(count+1))/2
            count = 0
    num_dec += (count*(count+1))/2

    return num_inc-num_dec

conf = raw_input().strip().split()
num_days, window_size = int(conf[0]), int(conf[1])
data = [int(i) for i in raw_input().strip().split()]

begin = 0
end = window_size - 1

while end < num_days:
    diff_array = []
    for i in xrange(begin + 1, end + 1):
        if data[i] > data[i - 1]:
            diff_array.append('i')
        elif data[i] == data[i - 1]:
            diff_array.append('e')
        else:
            diff_array.append('d')
    print window_result(diff_array, window_size-1)
    begin += 1
    end += 1