Altair v1.2.1 Release Notes
Release Date: 2017-10-29 // over 6 years ago-
This version of Altair is based on Vega-Lite 1.2.1.
Major additions
๐ Support for JupyterLab/nteract through MIME based rendering. Enable this by calling
enable_mime_rendering()
before rendering visualizations (#216).๐ Change default import in all code and docs to
import altair as alt
Check for missing and misspelled column names upon exporting or rendering, and raise
FieldError
(#399) if any problems are found. This can be disabled by settingChart.validated_columns=False
.Raise
MaxRowsExceeded
if the number of rows in the dataset is larger thanChart.max_rows
to guard against sending large datasets to the browser.๐ Move the Vega-Lite 1.x api into
altair.v1
to make it easier for us to migrate to Vega-Lite 2.x and continue to support 1.x. No import change are needed asaltair.v1
is aliased toaltair
in this releasealtair.v1
(#377).๐ Moved the example notebooks into a separate repository (https://github.com/altair-viz/altair_notebooks) that has Binder support (#391).
โ Add
$schema
to top-level JSON spec (#370).๐ Minor documentation revisions.
๐ Bug fixes
- 0๏ธโฃ Make sure default mark is a point (#344).