User Guide#

The User Guide explains key concepts in detail.

New users may prefer to start with the introduction in our Getting Started. guide.

To see examples of what can be done with Datashader, see Topics.

Contents:

1. Plotting Pitfalls: Explains how Datashader avoids pitfalls encountered when plotting big datasets using techniques designed for small ones.
2. Points: Plotting x,y locations and scatterplots.
3. Timeseries: Plotting timeseries and other curves.
4. Trajectories: Plotting trajectories (e.g. connected GPS points) in a plane.
5. Grids: Plotting 2D-gridded data (rasters and quadmeshes).
6. Trimesh: Plotting irregular triangular grids (trimeshes).
7. Networks: Plotting network graphs
8. Polygons: Using Datashader for geographic and other spatial applications.
9. Extending: Extending datashader with new components and functionality.
10. Performance: Hints for getting good performance out of Datashader in your applications.
11. Geography: Pointers to using Datashader for geographic and other spatial applications.
12. Inspection Reductions: Using reduction to inspect rather than aggregate data.

13. GeoPandas GeoPandas support in Datashader.