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I would be interested in hearing peoples experience of Altair vs Bokeh. I've used Bokeh on a couple of very small vis products, but never really dived into it f
by siddboots 8y ago
I would be interested in hearing peoples experience of Altair vs Bokeh. I've used Bokeh on a couple of very small vis products, but never really dived into it fully. Altair seems to have a similar goals, and a similar design philosophy. Is that an accurate impressions? Does either of the two stand obviously ahead of the other?
- afonit 8y agoAltair enables you to do very quick data visualizations of your data - this is crucial when doing Exploratory Data Analysis. There is minimal code to write to get sophisticated plots. That to me is its strength. Bokeh's strength (for me) is when I need to heavily customize a visual to an extreme. I know of some who use it for streaming data - etc which cannot be done in altair. Additionally you would only want to use Altair on medium sized data. But Bokeh in combination with Holoviews and Datashader can render incredible amounts of data (see pyviz.org)