With Altair, you can spend more time understanding your data and its meaning. Altair’s API is simple, friendly and consistent and built on top of the powerful Vega-Lite visualization grammar. This elegant simplicity produces beautiful and effective visualizations with a minimal amount of code.
- Altair can be installed, along with the example datastes in vega_datasets, using:
- If you are using the conda package manager, the equivalent is:
Python provides a lot of libraries, specifically for plotting and visualization and I usually have a tough time picking out which one to use for my problem statement.
I recently come across with Altair, a visualization library in Python and I was amazed by its capabilities. It is a very user-friendly library which actually performs a lot of things with the minimal amount of code.
Please note that Altair is still in development phase, so things might change over time. We can still do a lot of exciting work on it and the future potential really excites me.
- Overview of Altair
- What is Altair?
- Installation
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