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
  (Under construction; meanwhile points to the nyc_taxi notebook.)

• 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. Geography
  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.