Using Altair for most of my visualization in Python

#1

Post by cuchoi » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:37 PM UTC

Re: Using Altair for most of my visualization in Python

#2

Post by cuchoi » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:42 PM UTC

What visualization library are you using in Python?

#3

Post by nmca » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:45 PM UTC

Altair is incredible until you realise your plots are bigger than your data. It's annoying, but overall still very good.

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Post by airstrike » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:48 PM UTC

Pretty cool.

> Sadly, in Python, we do not have a ggplot2.

I've got to ask, though: why is that the case?

#5

Post by brylie » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:50 PM UTC

cuchoi wrote: post #2

What visualization library are you using in Python?

Mainly Seaborn and Plotly. Holoviews and Altair are certainly noteworthy:

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Post by X6S1x6Okd1st » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:55 PM UTC

airstrike wrote: post #4

Pretty cool. > Sadly, in Python, we do not have a ggplot2. I've got to ask, though: why is that the case?

matplotlib & things built upon it e.g. seaborn are the dominate forces in python visualizaiton.

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Post by bdurbin » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:55 PM UTC

cuchoi wrote: post #2

What visualization library are you using in Python?

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Post by ggoddard » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:57 PM UTC

This talk from PyCon 2019 is related and may be of interest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTingdk_pVM

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Post by errantspark » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:57 PM UTC

I came in here expecting to see one hell of a rationalization for using a 44 year old computer to do visualizations. :)

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Post by mxwsn » Mon, May 06, 2019, 9:58 PM UTC

nmca wrote: post #3

Altair is incredible until you realise your plots are bigger than your data. It's annoying, but overall still very good.

Can you speak more about this? Are you saying that Altair's speed scales poorly with dataset size?