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Interactive multi-dimensional data analysis and visualization
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paper comments target audience and napari #13

Closed pr4deepr closed 1 year ago

pr4deepr commented 1 year ago

Hi @lys-devel

Great software..

In the paper, the target audience hasn't been stated clearly. I know you mention its low code, but it really depends on your target audience. Many disciplines have multidimensional data, so it would be great to give a general idea of the target audience. This may be a low code solution to physicists with coding experience, but to a person with a background in biology and intermediate coding experience, this is more than just 'low code'.

I think you do need to have some knowledge of the respective libraries and use cases.

Have you seen napari? It is worth mentioning it in your paper and how different lys is. You can run IPython console in it and visualize it at the same time. Its mostly aimed for visualization but there is an ecosystem of plugins. It can also handle large dask arrays and xarrays).

Cheers Pradeep

pr4deepr commented 1 year ago

https://github.com/openjournals/joss-reviews/issues/5869

lys-devel commented 1 year ago

Thank you for the fruitful comment, @pr4deepr .

I have tried napari as you suggested. After understanding what other similar software can do, I noticed that lys is a general platform for data analysis and visualization (not a simple image viewer/analysis software). Therefore I added the paragraph that describes above point and spcify target audience as in line 51-56 in the new manuscript. In addition, I also compare lys with other similar software including napari in line 101-113.

I hope these modifications meet the publication criteria in JOSS.