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I also love how Observable Plot looks, but agree with top poster, the things that keep me from switching are: - Python wrapper - Out of the box interactivity
by zurfer 3y ago
I also love how Observable Plot looks, but agree with top poster, the things that keep me from switching are:
- Python wrapper
- Out of the box interactivity
- mbostock 3y agoWe’re working on the interactivity, but we’re not going to do a Python wrapper as the goal of Observable Framework (and Plot) is to leverage web technologies with JavaScript in the front-end for interactive graphics — while doing whatever language you like, including Python, on the back-end for data analysis. There is a R wrapper for Observable Plot (https://github.com/juba/obsplot https://github.com/juba/obsplot) and so I imagine someone could write one for Python, but ultimately we don’t think you’ll need it with Framework’s polyglot data loaders since you can seamlessly move between languages (front-end and back-end).
- ddanieltan 3y agoFYI: Same dev building obsplot is also building a Python version at https://github.com/juba/pyobsplot https://github.com/juba/pyobsplot
- mbostock 3y agoAh, that’s what I thought at first, but I googled for “obsplot” and found the R one and thought I misremembered. Thank you for the correction.