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ContextLab/hypertools

A Python toolbox for gaining geometric insights into high-dimensional data observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/ContextLab/hypertools · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

84/100

  • Activity 94
  • Release rhythm 62
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 227.5
  • age_days: 3627
  • days_rel: 40
  • days_push: 40
  • n_releases_24m: 3

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Adoption not part of the score

1887 stars · 164 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

HyperTools is a Python library for visualizing and exploring high-dimensional data via dimensionality reduction, built on matplotlib, scikit-learn, and seaborn. It reduces datasets and produces plots in a single function call, with optional interactive plotly backends and tools for clustering, alignment, and text vectorization.

Use cases

  • visualize high-dimensional data in 2D or 3D
  • reduce dimensionality of a dataset and plot it in one call
  • explore time-series trajectories in a lower-dimensional space
  • cluster high-dimensional data with mixture models
  • hyperalign multiple datasets to a common space
  • visualize topic models of text corpora
  • create interactive plots of embeddings in Colab or Kaggle

When to choose

  • you want quick, single-call dimensionality-reduction visualizations of numeric or text data
  • you work in Python with scikit-learn-style models and want plotting integrated with them
  • you need to compare or align multiple high-dimensional datasets
  • you want both static matplotlib and interactive plotly output

When to avoid

  • you need production-grade dashboards or business intelligence reporting rather than exploratory plots
  • you need fine-grained control over every plot aesthetic - use matplotlib or seaborn directly
  • you work outside Python or need GPU-accelerated visualization of massive datasets
  • you need real-time or streaming data visualization

Facets

library · maturity active

data-visualization machine-learning nlp data-visualization data-science machine-learning python cross-platform dimensionality-reduction high-dimensional-data matplotlib plotly clustering hyperalignment pca umap time-series topic-modeling

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