# Visualizing and analyzing ASPECT Data with "yt"

**URL:** <https://community.geodynamics.org/t/visualizing-and-analyzing-aspect-data-with-yt/1616>\
**Category:** ASPECT\
**Created:** [December 16, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.geodynamics.org/t/visualizing-and-analyzing-aspect-data-with-yt/1616 "2020-12-16T21:00:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![jbnaliboff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58956e/32.png) [@jbnaliboff](https://community.geodynamics.org/u/jbnaliboff)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 9:00pm UTC](https://community.geodynamics.org/t/visualizing-and-analyzing-aspect-data-with-yt/1616/1 "2020-12-16T21:00:48Z")

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Hi all,

I thought it would be a good idea to make a similar post to the one by Lorraine Hwang in the Rayleigh forum: [AGU yt poster with ASPECT data](https://community.geodynamics.org/t/agu-yt-poster-with-aspect-data/1615)

Over the last few months the ASPECT development team has had preliminary discussions with developers of “yt”, which is a python-based data analysis and visualization program that supports parallel loading and rendering of a wide range of data types. The ASPECT team is quite excited about the prospect of using yt, given that it could provide a single streamlined, efficient, and user friendly platform for most visualization and analysis.

Chris Havlin from the yt group has generously spent some time writing a routine to load ASPECT VTU data into yt, which was included on his AGU poster:

> **[Visualization and Analysis of 3D Data in the Geosciences Using the yt Platform](https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm20/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/696827)**
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> We present a number of advances to the yt platform for visualization and analys...

Below are links to various Jupyter notebooks from Chris’ AGU, including one for the ASPECT data sets:

> **[Jupyter Notebook Viewer](https://nbviewer.org/github/chrishavlin/AGU2020/blob/main/notebooks/aspect_unstructured.ipynb)**
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> Check out this Jupyter notebook!

> **[AGU2020/notebooks at main · chrishavlin/AGU2020](https://github.com/chrishavlin/AGU2020/tree/main/notebooks)**
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> main/notebooks

> **[Jupyter Notebook Viewer](https://nbviewer.org/github/chrishavlin/AGU2020/blob/main/notebooks/cm1_supercell.ipynb)**
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> Check out this Jupyter notebook!

> **[Jupyter Notebook Viewer](https://nbviewer.org/github/chrishavlin/AGU2020/blob/main/notebooks/seismic.ipynb)**
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> Check out this Jupyter notebook!

[![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/geodynamics/original/1X/248836208f13ccbafd7d47581fda478c1cb878b9.jpeg "yt idv test: enzo64") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLai8XwPRQk)

When you have a chance, I encourage anyone interested in this topic to take a look!

Thanks again to Chris for efforts in putting this together and the plan is to test out yt more extensively with ASPECT data in early 2021.

Cheers,  
John