Perspective is an interactive analytics and data visualization component, which is especially well-suited for large and/or streaming datasets. Use it to create user-configurable reports, dashboards, notebooks and applications, then deploy stand-alone in the browser, or in concert with Python and/or Jupyterlab.
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A fast, memory efficient streaming query engine, written in C++ and compiled for both WebAssembly and Python, with read/write/streaming for Apache Arrow, and a high-performance columnar expression language based on ExprTK.
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A framework-agnostic User Interface packaged as a Custom Element, powered either in-browser via WebAssembly or virtually via WebSocket server (Python/Node).
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A JupyterLab widget and Python client library, for interactive data analysis in a notebook, as well as scalable production Voila applications.
editable | file | fractal |
market | raycasting | evictions |
nypd | magic | streaming |
covid | webcam | movies |
superstore | citibike | olympics |
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- Streaming Cross-Sectional Data Visualization with Perspective + Spark | Tim Bess/Tim Paine, Data + AI Summit 2024
- Streaming, cross-sectional data visualization in JupyterLab | Junyuan Tan, JupyterCon 2020
- Perspective in 3D | Andrew Stein, Open Source in Finance Forum NYC 2022
- Build an order book simulation with Perspective | Andrew Stein, FINOS Open Source in Fintech Meetup 2021
- Perspective project case study | FINOS