What’s new in Glue v0.7?

Below we list some of the main changes in Glue v0.7. As a reminder, you can easily update glue if you are using Anaconda/Miniconda, by doing:

conda install glueviz

If instead you installed glue with pip, you can update with:

pip install glueviz --upgrade

Code and development reorganization

Since the v0.6.x releases, a lot of work has gone into reorganizing the Glue code base to make it more modular and more accessible for new developers. The documentation has also been completely reorganized and expanded, and now includes a description of some aspects of the Glue architecture and information for anyone interested in getting involved in Glue development.

We also have a new mailing list glue-viz-dev for anyone interested in development, so if you are interested in getting involved, please join the list and let us know!

As a result of the code reorganization, some imports may need to be updated if you are using glue from scripts. Please see this page for more details on what’s changed!

Layer artist options

When visualizing data in one of the data viewers, the list of layers is given in the ‘Plot Layers’ list in the left sidebar. While it was possible to edit the style of these layers via a contextual menu previously, we have now made the options more visible below the list:

../_images/layer_options1.png

This is currently implemented for the scatter and histogram viewers, and will be extended to other viewers in future.

Numpy reader

Glue is now able to read in .npy and .npz files produced by Numpy. Thanks to Adrian Price-Whelan for contributing this feature!

Bug fixes and usability improvements

A number of usability issues have been fixed. Of particular note, in the v0.6.x releases, lasso selection no longer worked in scatter plots with categorical components on one or more of the axes, but this has now been fixed (thanks to Will Dampier for refactoring the way selection of categorical components is handled internally!).

Full list of Changes

A full list of changes can be found in the CHANGES.md file