I think there are some pretty good arguments for why Altair (which is just Python bindings for Vega Lite) should be people's first choice. I've written about th

I think there are some pretty good arguments for why Altair (which is just Python bindings for Vega Lite) should be people's first choice. I've written about this here https://medium.com/@robin.linacre/why-im-backing-vega-lite-as-our-default-tool-for-data-visualisation-51c20970df39 https://medium.com/@robin.linacre/why-im-backing-vega-lite-a.... In my mind, ggplot2 is actually more comparable to matplotlib in that it's more expressive, but less intuitive. It's interesting that the 'successor' to ggplot2,ggvis (which is on ice) , used Vega as a backend.