Re: ANN: HoloViews 1.0 released
Thomas Kluyver <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Mar 2015 10:25:08 -0700
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Hi Jean-Luc, That looks very cool - Congratulations! Feel free to repost this to ipython-dev; we're gradually phasing out ipython-user and merging conversations onto one list. Best wishes, Thomas On 19 March 2015 at 10:21, Jean-Luc Stevens <[email protected]> wrote: > We are pleased to announce the first public release of HoloViews, a > Python package for scientific and engineering data visualization: > > http://ioam.github.io/holoviews > > HoloViews provides composable, sliceable, declarative data structures > for building even complex visualizations easily. > > It's designed to exploit the rich ecosystem of scientific Python tools > already available, using Numpy for data storage, matplotlib and mpld3 > as plotting backends, and integrating fully with IPython Notebook to > make your data instantly visible. > > If you look at the website for just about any other visualization > package, you'll see a long list of pretty pictures, each one of which > has a page or two of code putting it together. There are pretty > pictures in HoloViews too, but there is *no* hidden code -- *all* of > the steps needed to build a given figure are shown right before the > HoloViews plot, with just a few lines needed for nearly all of our > examples, even complex multi-figure subplots and animations. This > concise but flexible specification makes it practical to explore and > analyze your data interactively, while leaving a full record for later > reproducibility in the notebook. > > It may sound like magic, but it's not -- HoloViews simply lets you > annotate your data with appropriate metadata, and then the data can > display itself! HoloViews provides a set of general, compositional, > multidimensional data structures suitable for both discrete and > continuous real-world data, and pairs them with separate customizable > plotting classes to visualize them without extensive coding. A > large collection of continuously tested IPython Notebook tutorials > accompanies HoloViews, showing you precisely the small number of steps > required to generate any of the plots. > > Some of the most important features: > > - Freely available under a BSD license > - Python 2 and 3 compatible > - Minimal external dependencies -- easy to integrate into your workflow > - Builds figures by slicing, sampling, and composing your data > - Builds web-embeddable animations without any extra coding > - Easily customizable without obscuring the underlying data objects > - Includes interfaces to pandas and Seaborn > - Winner of the 2015 UK Open Source Award > > For the rest, check out ioam.github.io/holoviews! > > Jean-Luc Stevens > Philipp Rudiger > James A. Bednar > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > _______________________________________________ > IPython-User mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/ipython-user > _______________________________________________ IPython-User mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/ipython-user