<s>
glue	B-Application
(	O
spelled	O
with	O
a	O
lower-case	O
"	O
g	O
"	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
interactive	O
linked-view	O
data	O
visualization	B-Application
package	O
for	O
exploring	O
relationships	O
within	O
and	O
between	O
related	O
datasets	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
glue	B-Application
,	O
as	O
working	O
visualization	B-Application
software	I-Application
,	O
was	O
created	O
and	O
realized	O
in	O
2012	O
,	O
after	O
being	O
described	O
as	O
a	O
work-in-progress	O
in	O
Principles	O
of	O
High-Dimensional	O
Data	O
Visualization	B-Application
in	O
Astronomy	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Using	O
glue	B-Application
,	O
users	O
can	O
create	O
scatter	B-Application
plots	I-Application
,	O
histograms	B-Algorithm
,	O
tables	O
,	O
and	O
images	O
(	O
2D	O
and	O
3D	O
)	O
of	O
their	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
glue	B-Application
is	O
focused	O
on	O
the	O
brushing	B-Application
and	I-Application
linking	I-Application
paradigm	O
,	O
where	O
selections	O
in	O
any	O
graph	O
propagate	O
to	O
all	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
glue	B-Application
uses	O
the	O
logical	O
links	O
that	O
exist	O
between	O
different	O
data	O
sets	O
to	O
overlay	O
visualizations	B-Application
of	O
different	O
data	O
,	O
and	O
to	O
propagate	O
selections	O
across	O
data	O
sets	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
glue	B-Application
is	O
written	O
in	O
Python	O
,	O
and	O
built	O
on	O
top	O
of	O
its	O
standard	O
scientific	O
libraries	O
(	O
i.e.	O
,	O
Numpy	B-Application
,	O
Matplotlib	B-Language
,	O
Scipy	B-Application
,	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
glue	B-Application
is	O
distributed	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
Anaconda	B-Application
Python	I-Application
distribution	I-Application
,	O
and	O
is	O
available	O
on	O
MacOS	O
X	O
,	O
Linux	O
,	O
and	O
Windows	O
platforms	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
glue	B-Application
offers	O
a	O
high-level	O
of	O
customization	O
,	O
and	O
users	O
can	O
easily	O
integrate	O
their	O
own	O
Python	O
code	O
for	O
data	O
input	O
,	O
export	O
,	O
cleaning	O
,	O
and	O
analysis	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Examples	O
of	O
customization	O
include	O
automatically	O
loading	O
and	O
cleaning	O
data	O
before	O
starting	O
glue	B-Application
,	O
writing	O
custom	O
functions	O
to	O
parse	O
files	O
in	O
a	O
preferred	O
file	O
format	O
,	O
writing	O
custom	O
functions	O
to	O
link	O
datasets	O
,	O
or	O
creating	O
custom	O
data	O
viewers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
glue	B-Application
is	O
being	O
used	O
on	O
astronomy	O
data	O
of	O
star	O
forming-clouds	O
,	O
medical	O
data	O
including	O
brain	O
scans	O
,	O
and	O
many	O
other	O
kinds	O
of	O
data	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Several	O
plugins	O
exist	O
to	O
extend	O
glue	B-Application
's	O
functionality	O
to	O
a	O
wide	O
range	O
of	O
fields	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
DICOM	B-Algorithm
files	O
)	O
,	O
for	O
GIS	B-Application
visualization	B-Application
,	O
to	O
interface	O
with	O
the	O
planetarium	O
software	O
,	O
and	O
to	O
support	O
interoperability	O
with	O
the	O
WorldWide	B-Application
Telescope	I-Application
software	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Originally	O
built	O
on	O
the	O
Qt	B-Language
GUI	I-Language
framework	O
for	O
use	O
on	O
the	O
desktop	O
,	O
an	O
entirely	O
browser-based	O
version	O
of	O
glue	B-Application
(	O
)	O
is	O
being	O
developed	O
for	O
the	O
Project	O
Jupyter	O
ecosystem	O
,	O
including	O
Jupyter	O
notebooks	O
and	O
JupyterLab	O
.	O
</s>
