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edejong on July 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Visualizing Large Datasets on the GPU with Vega an...

A lot of these visualisations would benefit greatly by using 2d or 3d kernel density estimates instead of a simple scatter plot. See for example: https://youtu.be/Xz_7Ej6JsMY

tmostak on July 25, 2017 [–]

We can already do simple histograms (heatmaps). More complicated features such as Gaussian weighting and hexagonal bins are coming.

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