widgyts
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The facts
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Where it runs
- Browser rendering
- Its pan-and-zoom widget uses WebAssembly and runs client-side in the browser after data reaches the notebook.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Platform
- webchecked 23 Sep 2026
What it does
- Dashboard type
- interactivechecked 23 Sep 2026
- Dataset overview
- The DatasetViewer displays dataset parameters, fields, and other metadata, and includes a simple 3D grid viewer for AMR datasets.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Data sources
- yt datasets; mesh-based datachecked 23 Sep 2026
- Dependencies
- The documentation lists ipywidgets, ipydatawidgets, and yt as minimum dependencies.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The documentation recommends installing widgyts from PyPI with pip and also documents installation from source.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Interactive widgets
- The variable mesh viewer includes ImageCanvas, FRBViewer, and ColorMaps widgets whose traitlets can be linked across widget instances.checked 11 Oct 2026
- JupyterLab
- The docs provide a JupyterLab extension installation route and recommend JupyterLab 0.35 or above.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Latest listed release
- PyPI lists version 0.5.1, released April 14, 2023.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- PyPI lists widgyts under the BSD-3-Clause license.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Notebook persistence
- The documentation says DatasetViewer data should persist when a notebook is saved and be visible on nbviewer.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Particle support
- Particle viewing is preliminary, requires explicitly adding particles, and currently works only with AMR datasets.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Project author
- PyPI identifies the author as The yt Project.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- widgyts is a Jupyter widget package for interactive, exploratory data visualization, designed to work with yt and also handle mesh-based data.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The documentation lists communication channels and a help section for getting assistance.checked 11 Oct 2026
- yt integration
- Importing widgyts monkeypatches yt Slice and Projection objects to enable display from those objects.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 23 Sep 2026
