Clay

Clay is a REPL-friendly Clojure tool for data visualization and literate programming.

It also offers a set of tools to integrate Clojure literate programming with the Quarto publishing system.

Getting Started

Check out Get Started to get started!

Docs

More details may be found in the Documentation. In particular:

• See the API and Configuration subsections for more options and variations.
• See the Setup section and recent Videos for details about integrating Clay with your editor so you do not need to call make! yourself.

Related projects

The Claykind project is rethinking the Clay architecture and implementation from scratch, in a new code base. Currently (Fall 2023), the two projects are being developed in coordination.

The clay.el Emacs package offers relevant interactive functions to use Clay from Emacs

Kindly is a common ground for defining how things should be visualized, seeking compatibility across tools.

kindly-advice is a library that helps tools such as Clay to be Kindly-compatible.

kindly-render is a library for rendering kinds to different taget formats. In the near future (as of Nov. 2024), Clay should rely on it.

read-kinds is used internally by Claykind (and soon by Clay as well) to generate Kindly advice from notebooks expressed as Clojure namespaces.

Projects using Clay

Please reach out to add your project to this list.

;; ## Projects using Clay

• Clojure Civitas
• Tablecloth documentation
• Wolframite documentation
• Clay documentation
• Kindly-noted - documenting the ecosystem around Kindly
• Noj documentation
• Tableplot documentation
• Fastmath 3 documentation
• Tablemath documentation
• ClojisR documentation
• Clojure Tidy Tuesdays data-science explorations
• Clojure Data Tutorials
• Clojure Data Scrapbook
• LLMs tutorial (in spanish) by Kyle Passarelli
• Statistical Computing in Clojure: Functional Approaches to Unsupervised Learning by Jaryt Salvo
• the SciNoj Light conference
• the Macroexpand 2025 conferences

Discussion

The best places to discuss this project are:

• a topic thread under the #clay-dev channel at the Clojurians Zulip (more about chat channels here)
  • It is highly recommended to create separate topics for separate questions.
• a github issue

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License

Copyright © 2025 Scicloj

EPLv1.0 is just the default for projects generated by clj-new: you are not required to open source this project, nor are you required to use EPLv1.0! Feel free to remove or change the LICENSE file and remove or update this section of the README.md file!

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License version 1.0.