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datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1

Release of datasette-agent-charts version 0.1a1, which introduces several improvements including enhanced color schemes for bar and waffle charts, interactive tooltips, and a permission check for SQL execution. It also fixes a bug where waffleY charts were not properly described to the agent.

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Release: datasette-agent-charts 0.1a1

  • More color! Bar and waffle charts without a color column are shaded by magnitude with a sequential color scheme; color columns holding text values use the observable10 categorical scheme. #2- Now checks execute-sql permission before running the query to find the column names.- Charts now display interactive tooltips.
  • Fixed a bug where waffleY charts were not described to the agent. Tags: datasette, datasette-agent
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