A somewhat "lite" histogram library
See documentation on ReadTheDocs.
histlite is a histogram calculation and plotting library that tries to be "lite" on data structures but rich in statistics and visualization features. So far, development has taken place during my (Mike Richman) time as a graduate student and post-doctoral researcher in the field of particle astrophysics — specifically, working with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Histlite is intended both to facilitate high-paced exploratory data analysis as well as to serve as a building block for potentially very complex maximum likelihood data analysis implementations.
The core design considerations are:
The primary histogramming functionality consists of a thin wrapper around
numpy.histogramdd
. Statistical tools leverage scipy but include
custom solutions for some use cases. (Importantly, error propagation is
currently handled manually but may be migrated to the uncertainties
package in the future.) Plotting is done using matplotlib.