• Fix empty and error filters not displaying correct labels or loading correctly from metadata
• Standardize design of user menu
• Fix bug where headers would be corrupted after toggling off and back on
• Fix bug where irrelevant elements would be included on the loader screen, causing unexpected behaviors if clicked
• Improve scrolling layouts on user pages

We're excited to announce Rowboat Desktop! Faster exploration with larger files, right on your desktop. Get the app or read our blog post to learn more.

As always, if you run into any issues with Rowboat, whether it's in your browser or in the app, feel free to let us know at sos@rowboat.net.

New

• A new home page for opening files and accessing your library files (if available)

Improved

• Enable switching between numeric and categorical inline representations when possible
• Prompt to remove any filters applied to a column when changing data type
• Use theme-specific colors for loading bar and Excel sheet picker
• Reduce overhead of fetching column names upon toggling headers
• Use better cross-platform keyboard shortcuts for features such as search

Fixed

• Fix issue where datetime formats that included a comma did not work
• Fix issue where scrollbars can sometimes be captured in header snapshots
• Fix issue where clicking away from a dropdown will not dismiss it in Safari
• When editing a range filter, don't collapse the two values into a single value
• Fix newly geocoded columns reporting 100% empty
• Fix distinct and empty readouts not updating after hiding rows
• Fix issue where removing a filter on a stacked histogram would not restore the stacked histogram chart type

New

• Geocoding: process entries in a column to get a dot map using generated latitude and longitude values (available for Rowboat+ users)
• Rename entries: rename a single category or a group of merged categories
• Filter preview: press Alt (Mac) or Option (Windows) while hovering over certain header charts (bars, histogram, donut, treemap) to get a quick preview of the filter results

Improvements

• If a column is mostly errors upon changing to datetime, prompt user for datetime format
• Clarify layout of datetime format dialog
• Prevent flash of mean before median loads on histogram
• Highlight sample text on hover
• Improve performance when replacing values in a filter
• Improve performance when tallying values for a header donut chart
• Add dot size slider to expanded lat/lon maps
• Add zoom-to-bounds checkbox to ZIP code map
• Add an option to trim entries while splitting a column
• Enable editing on datetime filters
• Allow for editing the filename when exporting a file
• Allow for multiple inverted filters on a column
• If the user has manually selected a header chart other than the default, try to keep that preference after data updates
• Sorted values: display hovered or selected value

Fixes

• Fix a bug where files with encodings other than UTF-8 would crash on reload
• Improve visual consistency of arrow indicating direction of data sort
• Constrain width of very long filters
• Fix a bug where setting the data type of a column to Decimal would not update the readout of empties, uniques, and errors
• Improve likelihood of snapshot captures working in Safari
• Fix a bug where clicking outside of the split or join dialogs would not dismiss the operation
• Only show button to refresh samples when there are more samples to get
• Stacked histogram: keep "Scale to 100%" checkbox preference consistent while filtering
• Fix a bug where creating a new column (through split or join) while filtered would not display the correct set of data in the header chart
• Hide focus outlines on programmatically focused elements
• Fix a sharing bug where adding the email of a invited user would cause an error
• Fix a bug where donut and treemap header charts would show an incompatible "value" option for text columns

Browser extension

• Always show "Open table in Rowboat" option
• Fixes to Safari extension

• Enable log scaling on choropleth maps
• Enable median calculations on filtered data

• Fix bug with filtering on empties on split columns
• Fix lat/lon map rendering on GL canvas