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Allow integer aggregate values of zero #142

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jbednar opened this issue Apr 14, 2016 · 0 comments
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Allow integer aggregate values of zero #142

jbednar opened this issue Apr 14, 2016 · 0 comments
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jbednar commented Apr 14, 2016

For floating-point aggregate values, datashader uses NaN to indicate masked bins, i.e. bins with no data. Integers have no agreed-upon NaN value, and for now the interpolate and colorize methods of transfer_fn.py treat zero as the masked value. Similarly, for Boolean arrays, False is taken as the mask value, and only non-False bins are used.

For integer counts, zero does make a good mask value -- if there is no data for that cell (zero counts), mask it out. But for non-count integer-valued data, zero may have a specific interpretation other than "no data", and so it would be good to either allow users to specify a different mask value (perhaps -sys.maxsize?) or provide some other way to do masking.

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