Support for polars dataframes
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As Polars is becoming more and more popular I am wondering if there are any consideration to support its dataframes. Given the performance oriented focus of this package, it might be solid contender.
Yes, polars is certainly something we would like to add support for.
Other plotting libraries have been adding support for polars (and others) by supporting the __dataframe__ interchange protocol (https://data-apis.org/dataframe-protocol/latest/index.html)
I think this would be a great solution here as it would allow polars as well as other tabular libraries to be used with data shader.
My use case would be to provide a dataframe interface to plotting libraries from an AnnData object. This use case would rely on data shader only requesting the columns it actually needs for a plot, and not try to request every column of the dataframe..
Yes, it is a good idea. It just needs someone to volunteer to do the required work.