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Quickstart

Essentials

pip install aurora-cycler-manager   # install
aurora-setup init "path/to/project" # make a project
aurora-app                          # start the app

Example

Create a virtual environment in a folder with e.g. python -m venv or uv venv:

Create virtual environment

Install aurora-cycler-manager with pip install aurora-cycler-manager:

Install aurora-cycler-manager

Create an aurora project with aurora-setup init path/to/project (. means current folder):

Create an aurora project

Start the app with aurora-app:

Start the app

This will open an empty app:

Empty app

To load some example data, you can download kiye_dataset_parquet.zip from Zenodo. On the aurora-app, go to the Database tab, click the Upload button, drag and drop the .zip file, scroll to the bottom and press Confirm.

Uploading data

The Database samples table should now show the uploaded samples.

To view the data, you can select rows in the samples table and press View, or go to the plotting tabs and select the samples in the menus on the left.

Clicking view

Viewing data

Here you can change the axis on the plot, and add more samples to compare. The Batch Plotting tab does not show full time-series data, but includes more options for coloring, styling, and aggregating data from larger numbers of samples, as well as showing correlation maps and plots for summary statistics of samples.