Fritz Lekschas
Fritz Lekschas is a computer scientist researching scalable visual exploration of biomedical data. As the Head of Visualization Research at Ozette Technologies, he is leading the development of web-based data visualization and exploration tools for analyzing high-dimensional single-cell data. Fritz earned his PhD in computer science from Harvard University, where he was advised by Hanspeter Pfister and Nils Gehlenborg. He has published more than twenty peer-reviewed papers and his work has been recognized with several awards.
In his free time, Fritz likes to work on open-source tools for visual data exploration.
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Jupyter-scatter is a scalable, interactive, and interlinked scatter plot widget for exploring datasets with up to several million data points. It focuses on data-driven visual encodings and offers two-way pan+zoom and lasso interactions. Beyond a single instance, jupyter-scatter can compose multiple scatter plots and synchronize their views and selections. Moreover, points can be connected by spline-interpolated lines. Thanks to the underlying WebGL rendering engine, spatial and color changes are smoothly transitioned. Finally, the API integrates seamlessly with Pandas DataFrames and offers functional methods that group properties by type to ease accessibility and readability.