pyscagnostics 0.1.0a4

Description:

pyscagnostics 0.1.0a4

pyscagnostics
Python wrapper for computing graph theoretic scatterplot diagnostics.

Scagnostics describe various measures of interest for pairs of variables, based on their appearance on a scatterplot. They are useful tool for discovering interesting or unusual scatterplots from a scatterplot matrix, without having to look at every individual plot.


Wilkinson L., Anand, A., and Grossman, R. (2006). High-Dimensional visual analytics: Interactive exploration guided by pairwise views of point distributions. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, November/December 2006 (Vol. 12, No. 6) pp. 1363-1372.

Installation
pip install pyscagnostics

Usage
from pyscagnostics import scagnostics

# Using NumPy arrays or lists
measures, _ = scagnostics(x, y)
print(measures)

# Using Pandas DataFrame
all_measures = scagnostics(df)
for measures, _ in all_measures:
print(measures)

Documentation
def scagnostics(
*args,
bins: int=50,
remove_outliers: bool=True
) -> Tuple[dict, np.ndarray]:
"""Scatterplot diagnostic (scagnostic) measures

Scagnostics describe various measures of interest for pairs of variables,
based on their appearance on a scatterplot. They are useful tool for
discovering interesting or unusual scatterplots from a scatterplot matrix,
without having to look at every individual plot.

Example:
`scagnostics` can take an x, y pair of iterables (e.g. lists or NumPy arrays):
```
from pyscagnostics import scagnostics
import numpy as np

# Simulate data for example
x = np.random.uniform(0, 1, 100)
y = np.random.uniform(0, 1, 100)

measures, bins = scagnostics(x, y)
```

A Pandas DataFrame can also be passed as the singular required argument. The
output will be a generator of results:
```
from pyscagnostics import scagnostics
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd

# Simulate data for example
x = np.random.uniform(0, 1, 100)
y = np.random.uniform(0, 1, 100)
z = np.random.uniform(0, 1, 100)
df = pd.DataFrame({
'x': x,
'y': y,
'z': z
})

results = scagnostics(df)
for x, y, result in results:
measures, bins = result
print(measures)
```

Args:
*args:
x, y: Lists or numpy arrays
df: A Pandas DataFrame
bins: Max number of bins for the hexagonal grid axis
The data are internally binned starting with a (bins x bins) hexagonal grid
and re-binned with smaller bin sizes until less than 250 empty bins remain.
remove_outliers: If True, will remove outliers before calculations

Returns:
(measures, bins)
measures is a dict with scores for each of 9 scagnostic measures.
See pyscagnostics.measure_names for a list of measures

bins is a 3 x n numpy array of x-coordinates, y-coordinates, and
counts for the hex-bin grid. The x and y coordinates are re-scaled
between 0 and 1000. This is returned for debugging and inspection purposes.

If the input is a DataFrame, the output will be a generator yielding a tuples of
scagnostic results for each column pair:
(x, y, (measures, bins))
"""