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Lets-plot: An interactive Python plotting library using ggplot's API

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Re: Lets-plot: An interactive Python plotting library using ggplot's API

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Post by vlovich123 »

leemailll wrote: post #3

I don’t think ggplot2 has API

Read beyond the headline.

> The Lets-Plot for Python library includes a native backend and a Python API, which was mostly based on the ggplot2 package well-known to data scientists who use R.

> R ggplot2 has extensive documentation and a multitude of examples and therefore is an excellent resource for those who want to learn the grammar of graphics.

> Note that the Python API being very similar yet is different in detail from R. Although we have not implemented the entire ggplot2 API in our Python package, we have added a few new features to our Python API.

Re: Lets-plot: An interactive Python plotting library using ggplot's API

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Post by iav »

gimboland wrote: post #4
iav wrote: post #2

How is it different from plotnine? https://projectcodeed.blogspot.com/2020/07/ggplot-grammar-of...

From a cursory glance at both projects, it looks like plotnine doesn't do interactivity, for a start?

I wonder why they decided to start from scratch in Kotlin rather than just add the interactivity feature to plotnine. Now we have two competing projects...

Re: Lets-plot: An interactive Python plotting library using ggplot's API

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Post by c06n »

neves wrote: post #6

I've been a Python lover for decades. I dislike a lot of characteristics of the R language, but the ggplot2 package is superior to anything in Python visualization space. It is really excellent.

Depends, it does not do interactive 3D-plots. For that, Plotly is the only performant lib I know.
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