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Changelog
Oct 2026
Oct 2026
3.18
Your whole project, one drag away
Press Enter on a dataset, variable, result or model to open it in its best view, or drag it onto a map, chart or hub. Rename, export and remove from the same place, with Undo.- Swap what a panel shows with a drag. Drag a variable onto a panel to replace what it shows, and the panel redraws at once.
- Set a variable's colors once. Change a variable's default colors and every map and chart that follows it redraws to match.
Aug 2026
3.14
Watch your data move
Import GPS tracks, animal paths or residential histories and every fix is kept. Points travel across the map as time runs, trailing where they have been, with distances measured on the globe.- Tune any chart, then keep the numbers. Settings and export work on every visualization panel, and export can hand you the data as CSV.
- A blank cell just means missing. An empty spreadsheet cell no longer stops an import — it is read as missing data.
Aug 2026
3.13
Do cases keep company?
Q-statistics follows every person's path through space and time and asks whether cases stay near other cases rather than near controls. Residential histories included, so exposure years before diagnosis still count.- Style your map without leaving it. One panel owns every layer, and each change redraws the map as you make it.
- Prepare your data in one pass. Stack every preparation step into one ordered plan, review it, then run it.
Aug 2026
3.12
Save from wherever you already are
Save buttons in the Projects hub, a save chip on the title bar, and Save to cloud routed through the hub. And a save that fails can no longer take your project file down with it.- Pick up an import where it stopped. An interrupted online import resumes instead of starting over.
- Space-time kriging in minutes. What used to take most of a working day now finishes while you wait.
Jul 2026
3.11
Every analysis, one guided path
Choose what you want to find out and Vesta takes it from there. Twelve methods, three levels of guidance, and a summary at the end that explains what the result actually means.- See how outbreaks travel. Test whether cases cluster in space and time together, not just one or the other.
- Add to a map you already have. New data can join an existing geography instead of arriving as a separate dataset.
Jul 2026
3.10
Describe the picture, get the picture
Answer a question about what you want to see and Vesta assembles the workspace for you. Or build it yourself from the catalog, watching a live preview as you go.- Find any variable by typing. One searchable list replaces scrolling for the variable you want.
- Not sure what to plot? Vesta suggests the visualization that suits the shape of your data.
Jul 2026
3.9
All your data, one front door
Online sources and your own files now start in the same place. Pick where the data comes from, narrow to a category, and choose the dataset you want.- Your projects, wherever they are. Recent files on this PC sit alongside your cloud projects, in folders you control.
- Tidy up data on its own. Reach preprocessing straight from the rail, without running an import first.
Jun 2026
3.8
A shorter route to everything
The buttons down the left become a rail of hubs, so the thing you want is one click away instead of buried three menus deep.- Import a file, step by step. Read it, place it, set the time and types, and tidy it — in one guided pass.
- Know your shapes are sound. Broken outlines and duplicate points are found and repaired as the file loads.
Jun 2026
3.7
Your projects, off your hard drive
Save a project to the cloud, share it with whoever needs it, and keep every version. Folders, descriptions and history all come with it.- Three more file formats. GeoPackage, GeoJSON and KML files open directly, layers and all.
- Do that import again. Save a finished import and replay it on next month's file.
Jun 2026
3.6
Arrange your workspace three ways
Grid to see everything at once, Focus for one thing at a time, Compare for side by side. The statistics panel follows whichever moment in time you are looking at.- Satellite imagery, imported. Pick an area and a date range; Vesta stitches the tiles together for you.
- Direction matters. Variograms and interpolation now notice when your data varies more one way than another.
May 2026
3.5
Imports that walk you through it
Every online source now steps you through area, time and measures the same way, with a detail page explaining what the data is and how to use it before you commit.- Images arrive already colored. Color information traveling alongside an image is read as it imports.
- Color that follows the variable. A variable keeps its own colors and classes everywhere it appears.
May 2026
3.4
Scan only the years you care about
Set the period a scan covers with a slider, and look for unusually high values, unusually low ones, or both. Cases and population combine across the window you choose.- Every time step, one spreadsheet. Export a table covering all your time steps at once.
- Confidence, not just coefficients. Logistic models now report standard errors and p-values beside each coefficient.
Apr 2026
3.3
The advisor does its homework
Before importing anything, the advisor looks up what each source actually contains. It asks for real measures by name instead of guessing, so imports stop failing for silly reasons.- It checks while it answers. The advisor looks things up mid-conversation and writes its reply as it goes.
- Build a yes/no variable properly. Combine several conditions with and/or, and get a sensible name automatically.
Apr 2026
3.2
Ask for the whole job, not one step
The advisor lays out a numbered plan and works through it, stopping at checkpoints so you stay in control. When something is ambiguous it asks you rather than guessing.- Predict a yes or a no. Eight classifiers for yes/no outcomes, with a ROC curve for every time step.
- It can fetch the data too. The advisor imports from the CDC, the Census Bureau, the World Bank and your own files.
Mar 2026
3.1
Nine looks, one click
Pick a theme in Settings and the whole window follows — title bar, panels, icons and all. Work in something easier on the eyes when you have been staring at it all afternoon.- Bring in imagery. Import GeoTIFF images, draw them as map layers, and query any pixel.
- Interpolation, roughly 180 times faster. Large datasets that used to take minutes now finish while you watch.
Feb 2026
3.0
The Analysis Advisor is here
Describe what you want to know. The Advisor runs the analysis, builds the visualization, and explains the result — caveats included.- Regression that varies by place. A local fit at every location, so a relationship can differ across your study area.
- Skip the destination geography. Create a grid from the Data menu, set the cell size, and interpolate.
Jan 2026
2.9
Meet the Advisor
A guide built into Vesta that suggests which method suits your question, and helps you make sense of what comes back.- Explore one, two or three variables. Ready-made workspaces for looking at variables together.
- Make one panel bigger. Press the + on any visualization to fill the workspace with it.
Sep 2025
2.8
Joinpoint looks ahead
Joinpoint regression now projects where a trend is heading, not only where it has been, so you can see what the current direction implies.Apr 2025
2.7
Machine learning comes to Vesta
Fit a model when the relationship in your data is not a straight line, and see which variables carry the most weight.Jan 2025
2.6
Joinpoint picks its own shape
Vesta tries zero, one, two and three joinpoints and keeps the simplest fit your data supports, so you are not guessing at the number.- Log-ratio results in real units. Indicator interpolation on log-ratios is transformed back for you.
- Click a joinpoint, highlight everywhere. Selecting on a joinpoint plot highlights the same objects in every other view.
Dec 2024
2.5
Variograms understand categories
A categorical variable can go into a variogram now, which opens interpolation up to data that was never numeric to begin with.- Additive log-ratios. Now available in variograms.
- Compositional joinpoint. An early look at joinpoint regression for compositional data.
Oct 2023
2.1
Watch a variable change
Time plots put a variable's whole history on one chart, so a trend, a spike or a gap is obvious at a glance.- Map your categories. Categorical variables can now be drawn on a map.
- Fix a variogram after the fact. Edit or remove a variogram model you have already made.
May 2023
2.0
Five new ways to analyze
Multidimensional scaling, regression, joinpoint regression, variograms and interpolation all arrive together — the backbone of what Vesta does today.- Log transforms. Transform a variable by natural logarithm or base 10.
- Logarithmic axes. Available on scatter plots, joinpoint plots and heatmaps.
Mar 2023
1.3
Stack your maps
A map can hold several layers now. Bring in a variable from another dataset, move it up or down, and color each layer separately.Mar 2023
1.2
Gaps in your data, handled
Vesta recognizes missing values throughout — a dash in tables, gray on maps, and left out of the statistics rather than counted as zero.Nov 2022
1.1
Map query tool
Inspect an object's attributes, including data that changes over time.Jun 2022
1.0
Color your data properly
Map Settings offers color schemes chosen to suit your data type, with up to nine classes, so a pattern reads clearly instead of washing out.- Eleven basemaps. Street maps, monochrome and satellite imagery to sit your data on.