Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library • Hacker News Board

Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library

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Post by e12e » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 12:15 PM UTC

tvst wrote: post #6

kelsolaar wrote: post #4

As a plotting library, I think that the README would deserve to have at least a representative plot example.

Check out the example app, linked in the README. I meant for that to be a replacement for the README, since it actually lets you interact with the plots. But I'll add a picture to GitHub anyway

Looks like the app is dead :/

Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library

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Post by 6534278 » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 12:30 PM UTC

tvst wrote: post #5

Oh hey, fancy seeing this here! I'm the author I'll try to answer questions below.

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Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library

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Post by flakiness » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 12:59 PM UTC

tomthe wrote: post #20

What is the difference to https://altair-viz.github.io/ which I use in Python to create vega-lite plots? Can you create interactivity with Plost? Unfortunately https://share.streamlit.io/tvst/plost is still broken, so I can't really assess this.

Not OP, but the API looks slightly dense/shorter/brief, which might appeal some people.

I use Altair too, and initially felt the API very verbose compared to, say, matplotlib (for simpler plots). So I kind of see the possible appeal. But I now appreciate the grammar-of-graphics like composable nature of Altair API. And yeah, the interactivity is nice.

Re: Plost – a deceptively simple plotting library

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Post by nicolaskruchten » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 5:26 PM UTC

floodle wrote: post #17

Seems similar to plotly / plotly express?

Plotly Express author here: yes, seems very similar! I approve! I've been toying with the idea of building what I had been calling "Vega Express" for a while, but now it looks like I don't need to ;)