Key Features
Flexible plot methods
We already have many plugins with many many format options in existing plugins to flexibly visualize your data.
Usage in Scripts
Our standard is command-line first! psyplot offers a rich, flexible and simple framework to generate high-level APIs to be used in python scripts.
Graphical User Interface
You cannot only easily use psyplot from scripts, it comes with a flexible graphical user interface to interactively explore your data .
Flexible framework
The psyplot framework is built for flexibility to tackle the different types of analysis questions that arise in pioneering research, and to continuously add more features.
Projects
psyplot
psyplot is the core package that defines the framework and data
management. It provides the functionalities to decode CF- and UGRID-
Conventions, the main API in the psyplot.project module.
psy-simple
psy-simple is a plugin for psyplot that defines various plot methods for the visualization of 1D- and 2D-data. It is the basis for more specialized plugins, such as psy-maps and psy-reg.
psy-maps
psy-maps is extends the functionalities of psy-simple using cartopy. With psy-maps, you can use plot methods to visualize regular and unstructured data on a map.
psyplot-gui
psyplot-gui is building a GUI upon the psyplot framework for interactive analysis. Among many other features, it contains an in-process terminal, a help-explorer and tools to change the plots and project contents.
psy-view
psy-view provides a standalone widget for a simple investigation of netCDF file contents. Just like ncview it can be started as a standalone application, but is also embedded in the general psyplot GUI. It extends the functionalities of ncview with nicer, and more functional plotting methods.
psy-reg
psy-reg is a plugin built-upon psy-simple, statsmodels and scipy to fit regression models to your data.
Open Science
All packages are open-source, freely available, and developped transparently. Install it via pip or conda,
or get the source code on GitHub.
Contribute
We are always looking for contributors providing new plugins, format options, code snippets, etc.! The developers guide provide some general background on the framework. We are looking forward to your PR in one of our repositories on Github, or transform your code-snippets into format options if you post them in a new issue.
We kindly ask you to adhere to the code of conduct. Feel free to checkout our contribution guide for more information, and a guide about good bug reports.
Get in touch
If you are looking for a specific feature or have troubles with visualizing certain files, please, do get in touch with the psyplot developers via one of the following channels:
- Chat with the developers on mattermost
- Subscribe to the mailing list and ask for support
- Create an issue at the bug tracker