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Declarative visualization library for Python

10 mentions on Hacker News by 9 people: 3 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-04-08 · latest 2022-05-20

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  1. If you can write visualisations in Python itself, I am a big fan of Altair's syntax ( https://github.com/altair-viz/altair ), which is based on vega-lite. A while back, I wrote a brief guide and comparison of the main plotting libraries:…
    comment by pea · 2022-05-20 · in Mito – Excel-like interface for Pandas dataframes in Jupyter notebook
  2. …the data-orientation fits the Clojure philosophy. I also think Altair for Python is quite popular ( https://github.com/altair-viz/altair ) and that is a Vega-lite library.
    comment by simongray · 2020-10-30 · in Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
  3. …also available as the default plotting library in JupyterLab. If you like, also check out Altair ( https://github.com/altair-viz/altair ), a Python API for generating Vega-Lite and Vega-Lite-API ( https://observablehq.com/@uwdata/introducti…
    comment by domoritz · 2020-10-30 · in Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
  4. See also: Altair (Python library for generating Vega-Lite) https://github.com/altair-viz/altair Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23411859
    comment by bloaf · 2020-10-30 · in Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics
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    Altair – A declarative statistical visualization library for Python
    story by dragonsh · 2020-06-04 · 43 comments
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    Altair 4.0: Declarative statistical visualization library for Python
    story by danso · 2019-12-13 · 0 comments
  7. …was at v1.2. Version 1.2.1 hit a full year later. And v2.0 apparently landed just last month: https://github.com/altair-viz/altair/releases
    comment by danso · 2018-05-03 · in Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python
  8. …the author would like to have it pop up the name of the GPU when you mouseover too. Filed an issue: https://github.com/altair-viz/altair/issues/360
    comment by yzh · 2017-07-30 · in Stats on GPUs
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    Altair: Declarative statistical visualization library for Python
    story by ElliotH · 2017-05-27 · 0 comments
  10. …in R you can use the vegalite package [1]. Note also that R's ggvis uses vega under the hood. [0] https://github.com/altair-viz/altair [1] https://github.com/hrbrmstr/vegalite
    comment by RobinL · 2017-04-08 · in Python vs. R: The battle for data scientist mind share