Boost-histogram: High-Performance Histograms as Objects
Henry Schreiner, H.-P. Dembinski, Shuo Liu, Jim Pivarski · Proceedings of the Python in Science Conferences · 2020
Unlike arrays and tables, histograms in Python have usually been denied their own object, and have been represented as a single operation producing several arrays.Boost-histogram is a new Python library that provides histograms that can be filled, manipulated, sliced, and projected as objects.Building on top of the Boost libraries' Histogram in C++14 provided interesting distribution and design challenges with useful solutions.This is meant to be a foundation that others can build on; in the Scikit-HEP project 1 , a physicist friendly front-end "Hist" and a conversion package "Aghast" are already being designed around boost-histogram.