1.13.0

* #231: "Lock Zoom" button on 3D Scatter & Surface charts for locking camera on animations
* global & instance-level flag to turn off cell editing
* added the ability to upload CSVs
* upgraded prismjs
* #234: update to line animations so that you can lock axes and highlight last point
* #233: add candlestick charts
* #241: total counts vs. count (non-nan) in describe
* #240: force convert to float
* #239: converting mixed columns

README.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ D-Tale was the product of a SAS to Python conversion.  What was originally a per
 ## In The News
  - [Man Institute](https://www.man.com/maninstitute/d-tale) (warning: contains deprecated functionality)
  - [Python Bytes](https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/169/jupyter-notebooks-natively-on-your-ipad)
- - [PyCon 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNgolmUWBp4&t=33s)
+ - [FlaskCon 2020](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNgolmUWBp4&t=33s)
  - [San Diego Python](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLsGur5YqeE&t=29s)
  - [Medium: towards data science](https://towardsdatascience.com/introduction-to-d-tale-5eddd81abe3f)
  - [Medium: Exploratory Data Analysis – Using D-Tale](https://medium.com/da-tum/exploratory-data-analysis-1-4-using-d-tale-99a2c267db79)

dtale/__init__.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 # flake8: NOQA
 from dtale.app import show, get_instance, instances, offline_chart  # isort:skip
 from dtale.cli.loaders import LOADERS  # isort:skip
+from dtale.global_state import ALLOW_CELL_EDITS
 
 for loader_name, loader in LOADERS.items():
     if hasattr(loader, "show_loader"):

dtale/app.py

@@ -533,6 +533,7 @@ def show(
     context_vars=None,
     ignore_duplicate=False,
     app_root=None,
+    allow_cell_edits=True,
     **kwargs
 ):
     """
@@ -569,6 +570,11 @@ def show(
     :param ignore_duplicate: if true, this will not check if this data matches any other data previously loaded to
                              D-Tale
     :type ignore_duplicate: bool, optional
+    :param app_root: Optional path to prepend to the routes of D-Tale. This is used when making use of
+                     Jupyterhub server proxy
+    :type app_root: str, optional
+    :param allow_cell_edits: if false, this will not allow users to edit cells directly in their D-Tale grid
+    :type allow_cell_edits: bool, optional
 
     :Example:
 
@@ -610,6 +616,7 @@ def show(
             name=name,
             context_vars=context_vars,
             ignore_duplicate=ignore_duplicate,
+            allow_cell_edits=allow_cell_edits,
         )
         is_active = not running_with_flask_debug() and is_up(app_url)
         if is_active:

dtale/charts/utils.py

@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ def valid_chart(chart_type=None, x=None, y=None, z=None, **inputs):
             return True
         return False
 
+    if chart_type == "candlestick":
+        cs_props = ["cs_x", "cs_open", "cs_close", "cs_high", "cs_low"]
+        return all(inputs.get(p) is not None for p in cs_props)
+
     if x is None or not len(y or []):
         return False
 

dtale/cli/script.py

@@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
     help="flag to automatically open default web browser on startup",
 )
 @click.option("--name", type=str, help="name to apply to your D-Tale session")
+@click.option(
+    "--no-cell-edits",
+    is_flag=True,
+    help="flag to turn off auto-reaping (process cleanup after period of inactivity)",
+)
 @setup_loader_options()
 @click.option("--log", "logfile", help="Log file name")
 @click.option(
@@ -41,6 +46,7 @@ def main(
     no_reaper=False,
     open_browser=False,
     name=None,
+    no_cell_edits=False,
     **kwargs
 ):
     """
@@ -65,6 +71,7 @@ def main(
         reaper_on=not no_reaper,
         open_browser=open_browser,
         name=name,
+        allow_cell_edits=not no_cell_edits,
         **kwargs
     )
 

dtale/column_builders.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
 from scipy.stats import mstats
+from six import string_types
 
 import dtale.global_state as global_state
 from dtale.utils import classify_type
@@ -351,7 +352,32 @@ def build_column(self, data):
                 return pd.Series(
                     s.astype("float").astype("int"), name=self.name, index=s.index
                 )
+            elif to_type == "float":
+                return pd.Series(
+                    pd.to_numeric(s, errors="coerce"), name=self.name, index=s.index
+                )
             else:
+                if from_type.startswith("mixed"):
+                    if to_type == "float":
+                        return pd.Series(
+                            pd.to_numeric(s, errors="coerce"),
+                            name=self.name,
+                            index=s.index,
+                        )
+                    elif to_type == "bool":
+
+                        def _process_mixed_bool(v):
+                            if isinstance(v, bool):
+                                return v
+                            if isinstance(v, string_types):
+                                return dict(true=True, false=False).get(
+                                    v.lower(), np.nan
+                                )
+                            return np.nan
+
+                        return pd.Series(
+                            s.apply(_process_mixed_bool), name=self.name, index=s.index
+                        )
                 return pd.Series(s.astype(to_type), name=self.name, index=s.index)
         elif classifier == "I":  # date, float, category, str, bool
             if to_type == "date":