A major update for DataMapPlot adds interactive plots.
See for an example.
Let's dig in to what you can do with DatMapPlot 0.2 ... 🧵 lmcinnes.github.io/datamapplot_ex…


Given a data map and labels making rich interactive plots is easy. The ArXiv example above can be generated as follows:

Ever needed a few more colours than the standard colour cycle for your plot? Ever wanted a categorical colour palette based around your own custom colours? With glasbey you can create and extend custom categorical colour palettes with ease.🧵 The glasbey library is on github: github.com/lmcinnes/glasb…
Documentation can be found on readthedocs: glasbey.readthedocs.org
And you can pip install it:

$ pip install glasbey

The latest version of umap-learn is now out. Version 0.5 includes some major new features, including ParametricUMAP, DensMAP, AlignedUMAP, model composition, and model updating. Thank you to everyone who contributed! 1/14 ParametricUMAP uses a neural network to learn a UMAP embedding. This allows for a number of significant advantages. 2/14

Pynndescent, an approximate nearest neighbor search library, got a major update recently. Index construction is now multicore by default. Querying is now much faster -- competitive with some of the fastest ANN libraries around.
(1/4) Performance in particularly strong for higher accuracy (>90%) queries.
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