Release notes for v1.24 (w/c 27 Sept 2021)

Main new developments

Usability improvements for plotting data

• Validation plots – For clarity and simplicify, user options have been renamed, new Help tooltips have been added, and X axis values are now always sorted by default.
• Box and Whisker plots – Shows a single plot at a time with the option to make columns interactive. Filters out columns that are undesirable for grouping data.
• Line plots – new Help tooltips added for clarity and filters out columns that are undesirable for grouping data.
• 2D Point plots – now plots a single plot at a time with a new option to make axes interactive.
• Bar plots – When a dataset is too big to effectively display (more than 1000 unique values) a warning message will suggest alternative data exploration tools. 

Performance improvements for plotting data

• If more than 10,000 data points are selected for plotting, a random subset of 10,000 is displayed by default, an option to display all points is also available. Informative text will be displayed on any step where data has been randomly sampled. This affects Line plots, Validation plots, 2D Point plots, Box and Whisker plots and TSNE plots.

• If more than 1000 data points are selected for plotting, WebGL (pixel graphics) will be used for rendering instead of SVG (vector graphics).

Other improvements

• Better handling of connection issues
• Improving speed and memory issues within notebooks
• Other bug fixes