Of course! HoloViews does allow infinite customizability, to pull out more and more subtle features, show things more clearly, and just to make it look nice or

Of course! HoloViews does allow infinite customizability, to pull out more and more subtle features, show things more clearly, and just to make it look nice or to match your favorite style. But unlike ggplot2, HoloViews does that in a way that can apply to the _data_, rather than having to recapitulate the process every single time you build an individual plot. That way you and your colleagues can together build up whatever style you find most effective, then keep working with it across the full multidimensional landscape of data that you work with in a particular field. HoloViews is a completely different approach, if you really let the ideas sink in (e.g. from our paper about it at http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/scipy2015/pdfs/jean-luc_stevens.pdf http://conference.scipy.org/proceedings/scipy2015/pdfs/jean-...), and is in no way a second-class citizen compared to ggplot2 or any other approach in R...