Work on grammars for graphics go back to Leland Wilkinson [1]; Tableau's VizQL and Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 library for R are other notable examples [2]. [1]:

Work on grammars for graphics go back to Leland Wilkinson [1]; Tableau's VizQL and Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 library for R are other notable examples [2]. [1]: https://www.cs.uic.edu/~wilkinson/TheGrammarOfGraphics/GOG.html https://www.cs.uic.edu/~wilkinson/TheGrammarOfGraphics/GOG.h... [2]: http://ggplot2.org/ http://ggplot2.org/