Datashader
Renders very large datasets into images accurately.
Charts and data visualisation PyPI BSD-3-Clause
How Datashader is used
Datashader is a dependency in 0 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 20 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use Beautiful Soup (95.0%), Bokeh (95.0%), Dask (95.0%).
Datashader popularity over time
Gid Score 40: downloads 43, use in agent projects 28, GitHub stars 33, downloads trend 68 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Datashader
| Beautiful Soup | 95.0% of Datashader projects · 44.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| Bokeh | 95.0% of Datashader projects · 1965.9× more than average |
| Dask | 95.0% of Datashader projects · 1474.4× more than average |
| Flask | 95.0% of Datashader projects · 55.1× more than average |
| fsspec | 95.0% of Datashader projects · 210.6× more than average |
| h5py | 95.0% of Datashader projects · 453.7× more than average |
| imageio | 95.0% of Datashader projects · 982.9× more than average |
From all 20 projects in our scan that use Datashader, including the dependency samples.
How Datashader is funded
Open Collective: HoloViz
| Received, last 12 months | $259 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $259 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $517 |
| Raised since the start | $1,281 · $764 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 · $0 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +4217% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| NumFOCUS | $1,017 since Jun 2023 |
|---|---|
| THANKS.DEV | $259 since May 2026 |
Jun 2023Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Jun 2023. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 5 more tools in our catalog: HoloViews, Panel, Param, Colorcet, hvPlot.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host NumFOCUS. Source
Ways to fund Datashader
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install datashader |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (20) |
| Example projects | opengeos/geospatial, Zhou-CyberSecurity-AI/ATBA |
Alternatives to Datashader
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Charts and data visualisation does the same job as Datashader: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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