Customize color scale and palette

[heshan0131]

Color Palette customization (done) https://github.com/keplergl/kepler.gl/pull/601

User should be able to design custom color palette, they should be able to

• Click using custom color palette to toggle color palette editor
• Start from blank, or start from an existing palette, (advanced: paste an array of hex values into an input box)
• Edit color value using a color picker, or input rgb, hex value
• Add and remove colors
• Drag to reorder colors

Color Value customization (in progress)

User should be able to import values next to each color, using dropdown for ordinal values and input box for numeric values. There will be a distribution graph for numeric values, user can drag the slider handle to adjust value range of each bin

Ordinal values

Implementation Step:

1. Store value color Map in layer.config.colorUI.colorRange.customPalette, create a new prop colorMap and save it as a JS Map

const colorMap = new Map([["foo", "#FFFFFF"], ["bar", "#000000"], ["foo1", "#FF0000"]]);

only store values manually selected by user. if user is using the "assign rest to one color" option, don't store all the rest of the values to the map, later when create color scale, use the .unknown() method to assign color to the rest of values.

3. When calculate color based on custom color scale in layer.getVisChannelScale(base-layer.js). Use D3.ordinalScale and pass in the colorMap and a value for unknown

m = d3.scaleOrdinal()
  .domain(colorMap.keys())
  .range(colorMap.values())
.unknown('#fff000') // assign rest value to a color value 

[Numeric values]

Add more color scale options

• Add log, sqrt and Jenkins natural break scale

Implementation steps:

1. add log and sqrt scale (done) https://github.com/keplergl/kepler.gl/pull/670 1.5 add Jenkins natural breaks scale (in progress)
2. Add a 'Use custom color palette ' toggle under the reserved toggle (done) https://github.com/keplergl/kepler.gl/pull/601
3. Allow edit color value using a color picker, or input rgb, hex value (done) https://github.com/keplergl/kepler.gl/pull/601
4. Add input box to custom value domain for each color (ordinal and numeric value has different input UI) (not started)
5. Add distribution graph for numeric values (not started)

[alejokp]

I would love this!

[chrisgervang]

I’d like to recommend react-color as a nice picker component :)

https://casesandberg.github.io/react-color/

[davidwedekind]

Hi, Will this also include manual color range specification? It would be very useful not only to have automatic color range determination such as by quantile or quantize but manual range specification like in QGIS. E. g. color "#FFC300" for values between 0 and 50, "#F1920E" for values between 51 and ... Thx, David

[vohaha]

@heshan0131 Do we have actions/helpers to change layer's color programmatically?

[macrigiuseppe]

landed

[DavidTrafi]

Hi, First of all, the new color palette feature is awesome!!! Thanks for constantly improving kepler. I assumed there was also going to be a function to change the color scale, e. g. based on fixed custom intervals. Is such a function planned/ coming soon? Thanks for your answer. Best, David

[heshan0131]

Adding value customization is in progress:

[bartekmaciejewski]

Hi, I've found this value customization feature important for me. Are you still working on it? Maybe I could help?

Cheers Bartek

[miketsui3a]

Is the value customization still in progress?

[heshan0131]

This got put away for a little while, we just resumed the work. Should come out in the next month or so

[Stepulin]

Hi, sorry to bother you, but I would like to ask you - are there any updates regarding to this function? Thank you very much in advance

[lucasvw]

This got put away for a little while, we just resumed the work. Should come out in the next month or so

Hi heshan0131, sorry to bother you on this. Is the value customization still in the pipeline?

[zhenliangma]

Is the value customization ready to use?

[npahl]

me too, I would love to use the value customization.

[EzequielPuerta]

Im waiting for this. it will be awesome...

[diego-ch]

do we have any updates on this?

[KrimsN]

I'm waiting for the opportunity to set the palette statically from min to max, and not relatively as now.

[jooglyp]

do we have any updates on this?

[nickbroom98]

Really loved using Kepler so far!! Is there any updates on when value customization might be ready as it would be hugely helpful for my project?

[macrigiuseppe]

This feature is going to be available in studio.unfolded.ai and after beta testing it will be merged into our open source project

[yanzhegeo]

Kepler is great!! Is there any updates on when value customization might be ready in Kepler.gl?

[gertstahl]

Any chance this will be available in the open source project soon? Would be greatly appreciated ;) Thanks to the team for an awesome tool!

[xiaofanliang]

Up vote for this function too! Thanks a lot!

[sinannoureddine]

I'm reading the comments before not sure if I missed something or if the update still hasn't been published yet.

Any updates on this update, please?

[dancestorm]

Its almost 2023 and that feature still has not added :(

[sinannoureddine]

This feature is going to be available in studio.unfolded.ai and after beta testing it will be merged into our open source project Any updates please? This is open since 2019. Just to know if we wait for it lol or we accept that it'll never be updated :(

[KarthicKamalesh]

Hi @heshan0131 @sinannoureddine @dancestorm @xiaofanliang @mletic I have a separate column named as count Can you please tell me how to set the color for the count showing 0 as transaparent and the light color starts from 1 and ends with dark color for 100

[kungf00man]

Could be relevant for someone working with Kepler in Jupiter. I managed to work out how to bind colors to custom value ranges using colorMap & colorLegends properties:

import pandas as pd
from keplergl import KeplerGl
from numpy import array

# Define color mapping routines ("less or equal" in this example)
class Mapper:

    def __init__(self):

        # Define custom palette & legend values
        self.__ranges = {
            2: { 'color':'#ff0000', 'legend':'<= 2' },
            3: { 'color':'#00ff00', 'legend':'<= 3' },
            4: { 'color':'#0000ff', 'legend':'> 3' }, # Key here must be >= than max value in dataset
        }

        self.__keys = array(list(self.__ranges.keys()))

    # Estimate color based on a value
    def __mapper(self, val:float) -> str:
        return self.__ranges[self.__keys[self.__keys >= val].min()]['color']
    
    # Prepare color map for Kepler config
    def get_color_map(self, for_values: pd.Series) -> list:
        return [[x,y] for x,y in zip(for_values, for_values.apply(self.__mapper))]
    
    # Prepare color legends for Kepler
    def get_color_legends(self) -> dict:
        return { v['color']:v['legend'] for _,v in self.__ranges.items() }
    
    # Prepare custom colors for Kepler
    def get_colors(self) -> list:
        return [v['color'] for _,v in self.__ranges.items()]

# Sample DataFrame
df = pd.DataFrame([[1,1,0],[2,2,0],[3,3,0],[4,4,0]], columns=['x','lon','lat'])

# Init Kepler
kgl = KeplerGl()
kgl.add_data(df)
kgl

# Pull out config
cfg = kgl.config
mapper = Mapper()

# Tweak it with the Mapper
color_range_for_layer = cfg['config']['visState']['layers'][0]['config']['visConfig']['colorRange']
color_range_for_layer['colors'] = mapper.get_colors()
color_range_for_layer['colorMap'] = mapper.get_color_map(df.x)
color_range_for_layer['colorLegends'] = mapper.get_color_legends()

# Re-Init Kepler and enjoy
kgl = KeplerGl(config=cfg)
kgl.add_data(df)
kgl

It's a bit of a hack of course but works fine for me. Not tested on really big datasets :)

[KarthicKamalesh]

Thanks

[ahinoamp]

Note - the above code from kungf00man only works for version 0.3.2. Also - here's an enhacement to automate above code.

# modify the init method from mapper class from above 
import branca.colormap as cm
class Mapper:

    def __init__(self, vmin, vmax, n_steps):
        # Define custom palette & legend values
        stepsize = ((vmax+0.01)-vmin)/(n_steps-1)
        colormap_true_temp = cm.LinearColormap(colors=['blue', 'red'], vmin=vmin, vmax=vmax)
        ranges = {}
        for i in range(n_steps):
            value = np.round(vmin+stepsize*i, 2)
            color = colormap_true_temp(value)[:-2] ## remove the transparency 2 characters
            ranges[value] = {'color': str(color), 'legend': '<= ' + str(value)}
        self.__ranges = ranges

and then also modify the call from above to --> mapper = Mapper(vmin = 0, vmax = 5, n_steps=5)