viawidgets 0.1.1

A collection of simple custom widgets built with AnyWidget.

viawidgets

Concept sketch:

What are ViaWidgets?

They are interactive widgets (based on anywidget) centered around two core concepts:

• via: You go "via" them (input data → ViaWidget → output data).
• VIA: They use Visualization for Interaction Augmentation.

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A simple example is the HistogramRangeFilter:

• via: It is used to filter an input array based on a selected range. The filtered array can be used in subsequent notebook cells.
• VIA: The range slider is augmented by the histogram, allowing interpretation of the underlying distribution for an informed interaction.

⚠️ This package is in an early development stage and is currently just built as a research prototype. Expect

• Bugs 🐛🐛🐛🐛
• Frequent changes to widget names, parameters, etc.
• A lack of proper documentation.

Some plans for the future

• Many, many more ViaWidgets. Also, new kinds of ViaWidgets (e.g., collaborative(web-based) ViaWidgets).
• Adding/modifying different visualizations to fit different data characteristics/analysis tasks/user personas.
• Providing some consistency across different ViaWidgets (e.g., common styling options, shared data models)
• Figuring out a way to combine compatible ViaWidgets dynamically for a bi-directional brushing and linking.
• Widget suggestions and widget combination templates for certain application scenarios.