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dev is red, and the inventory tutorial does not build. This fixes both.

#950 respelled label membership as stating no value and refused true/false as values. The inventory plots (#952) were written before #950 and merged after it, so each PR's CI was green against its own base and the combination was never tested. On dev today:

  • tests/test_viz/test_inventory_viz.py — 61 errors
  • tests/test_viz/test_lanes.py — 2 failures
  • tests/test_autogenerated_doccode/tutorial/test_inventory.py — 1 failure

The doc failure is the one that matters most. docs/tutorial/inventory.qmd now writes membership as an empty CSV cell, exactly as #950 intends. That column loads as pandas' string dtype, where the model's None reads back as NaN, and _lane_kind handed it to normalize_value, which refuses anything non-finite. So building the page raised A value must be finite; got nan.

The fix

The renderer adopts #950's vocabulary instead of working around it:

  • Membership is the absence of a value, whichever of None, NaN or NA the column's dtype produces. A lane of such rows takes one color and is named by itself in the legend, which is what it already did for None.
  • Booleans are no longer a value kind here, because they are no longer a value kind anywhere. The lane that used to draw False at low alpha is gone; a row outside a group is expressed by having no row, as State label membership by having no value #950 says.
  • A number missing from a numeric lane is drawn, in the color which says nothing was stated, rather than raising. map already treated unstated fiber that way; the lanes now agree with it.

Inventory.viz.map needed the same reading, since it also asks value_kind what a group holds.

Why it was not caught

Both PRs were green when they merged. Only their combination is broken, and nothing tests that until it is on dev. Worth considering whether the merge queue should rebase before running, since this is the second time this pattern has bitten (see #851/#852).

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  • fixed: Inventory.viz plots read a label group which states membership, so the inventory tutorial builds again.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved lane and inventory visualization for missing membership values, including None, NaN, and pandas NA.
    • Membership-only groups now display consistently without misleading "None" legend entries.
    • Missing-value rows render as uncovered with appropriate coloring and opacity.
    • Default labels and legends now describe membership rows without treating them as data values.

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The change normalizes None, NaN, and pandas NA as lane-membership markers. Lane rendering and inventory coloring now use consistent labels, color mappings, numeric handling, and legend entries.

Membership coloring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lane membership semantics
dascore/viz/_lanes.py, tests/test_viz/test_lanes.py
Lane logic identifies all missing-value markers as membership. Membership rows omit default values, remain visible, and use uncovered coloring in numeric lanes.
Inventory membership-only coloring
dascore/viz/inventory.py, tests/test_viz/test_inventory_viz.py
Membership-only groups use the group name in the legend and omit a "None" entry. Unplaced segments receive an "n/a" entry.

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Numeric inventory groups containing value-less membership labels can still fail to render, preventing affected plots from building. The PR is not merge-ready until those labels are excluded from numeric conversion and covered by a regression test.

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Comment thread dascore/viz/_lanes.py
Comment on lines +226 to +228
[
np.nan if _is_membership(x) else float(normalize_value(x))
for x in rows["value"]

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P2 Badge Keep missing rows distinct on single-value numeric lanes

When a numeric lane contains one distinct finite value plus None/NaN, this conversion produces NaN, but the len(unique) < 2 branch below returns cmap(0.5) for every row. The missing interval therefore looks identical to the stated numeric value instead of using UNCOVERED_COLOR; preserve the membership mask when applying the single-value shortcut.

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Fixed. Reproduced first: a lane of [5.0, NaN, 5.0] gave all three rows cmap(0.5), so the hole read as data. The single-value shortcut now keeps the membership mask and returns UNCOVERED_COLOR for the rows which state nothing. Covered by test_one_value_is_not_no_value.

Comment thread dascore/viz/inventory.py
Comment on lines +809 to +811
kinds = {
value_kind(normalize_value(k)) for k in keys if not _lanes._is_membership(k)
}

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P2 Badge Name membership regions correctly in map legends

When Inventory.viz.map is colored by a membership-only label group, filtering the missing keys leaves kinds empty, but the categorical branch below still stringifies each key. Consequently the covered region is labeled None beside an n/a entry, even though None denotes membership rather than missing coverage; handle the empty-kind case explicitly and label its color as the membership group.

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Fixed. It really did render ['None', 'n/a']. An empty kinds is now handled before the categorical branch: the group is the value, so its rows take one color and the legend entry is named for the group, with n/a kept for fiber outside it. Covered by test_color_a_membership_group.

Comment thread dascore/viz/_lanes.py
Comment on lines +62 to +65
A frame carries that as no value at all, which pandas spells None,
NaN or NA depending on what else the column holds.
"""
return bool(pd.isna(value))

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P2 Badge Canonicalize membership keys before applying color mappings

When pandas represents an unset value as NaN or NA, a caller's membership override such as color={None: "red"} is ignored because _resolve_colors looks up the raw scalar even though this helper declares all three representations equivalent. The same logical frame therefore changes colors with its pandas dtype; canonicalize membership values to one key before applying value-to-color mappings.

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Fixed. Mapping lookups now canonicalize membership to a single None key before consulting the mapping, so color={None: 'red'} applies whether the column spelled it None, NaN or NA. Covered by test_membership_has_one_key_in_a_mapping.

Comment thread dascore/viz/_lanes.py Outdated
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Column deciding each row's color. Strings are categorical and
numbers continuous; rows which state no value belong to their
lane and take its color.

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P2 Badge Remove the stale boolean-label contract

The label paragraph immediately below still says that boolean values produce no text, but this change removes booleans as a supported value kind and normalize_value now rejects them. Users following this public API documentation will receive a ParameterError, so update the label description to describe unset membership values instead. .agents/agents.mdL45-L45

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Fixed — the label paragraph described a kind this PR removes. It now says a row which states no value draws no text, since its lane already names it.

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true and false as values. The inventory plots were written before that
and merged after it, so each branch was green against its own base and
the pair broke on dev: a group which states membership loads from CSV
into a string column, where its None reads back as NaN, and the
renderer handed that to normalize_value, which refuses what is not
finite. The inventory tutorial stopped building on that line.

The renderer now takes #950's vocabulary rather than working around it.
A row states membership by holding no value, whichever of None, NaN or
NA the column's dtype produces; such a lane takes one color and is
named by itself. Booleans are no longer a kind here either, since they
are no longer a kind anywhere. A number missing from a numeric lane
draws in the color which says nothing was stated, rather than raising.
Four findings from review. A numeric lane holding one value plus a
missing one gave every row that value's color, so the hole read as
data. A color mapping was looked up on the raw scalar, so a caller's
membership key applied or not depending on the column's dtype. A map
colored by a group everything belongs to labelled it None beside n/a,
rather than naming the group. And the label parameter still documented
a boolean kind which no longer exists.
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In `@dascore/viz/inventory.py`:
- Around line 809-823: Update the numeric color-assignment loop in the
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Comment thread dascore/viz/inventory.py
Comment on lines +809 to +823
kinds = {
value_kind(normalize_value(k)) for k in keys if not _lanes._is_membership(k)
}
if not kinds:
# Every row states membership, so the group itself is the value
# and belonging to it is the only thing there is to color.
colors = [UNPLACED] * len(mid)
base = plt.get_cmap(_lanes.STRING_CMAP)(_lanes.WHEEL_ORDER[0])
for mask in masks:
for position in np.flatnonzero(mask):
colors[position] = base
handles.setdefault(color, PatchArtist(facecolor=base, label=color))
if any(c is UNPLACED for c in colors):
handles.setdefault("n/a", PatchArtist(facecolor=UNPLACED, label="n/a"))
return None, colors

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Skip membership labels during numeric conversion.

Lines 809-811 classify a group with numeric values and a membership label as numeric. The numeric branch then converts every label at Line 827. float(normalize_value(None)) raises TypeError. A NaN label raises ParameterError.

Skip membership labels in the numeric assignment loop. Leave their initialized NaN values in place so map_path renders them as n/a. Add a regression test for a numeric group with a value-less label.

Proposed fix
         values = np.full(len(mid), np.nan)
         for item, mask in zip(items, masks, strict=True):
+            if _lanes._is_membership(item.value):
+                continue
             values[mask] = float(normalize_value(item.value))
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In `@dascore/viz/inventory.py` around lines 809 - 823, Update the numeric
color-assignment loop in the surrounding inventory plotting function to skip
keys where _lanes._is_membership(k) is true, leaving their initialized NaN
values unchanged so map_path renders them as n/a. Preserve conversion for
ordinary numeric keys, and add a regression test covering a numeric group with a
value-less membership label.

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