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Altair is great. I'm using Plotly more lately, for 2 reasons - chart have very good interactivity by default and I'm also a Dash user - so it comes in naturall

Altair is great. I'm using Plotly more lately, for 2 reasons - chart have very good interactivity by default and I'm also a Dash user - so it comes in naturally. But I believe Altair is excellent for exploration - simple charts are very simple to create, and it's not complicated to create a complex exploration dashboard - with all charts linked between them - so you can select a subset of data on one chart, and it automatically updates the others. Highly recommend at least exploring it !

pid-1 3y ago
Also Plotly generates Javascript so it has wrappers for many python frameworks such as Streamlit. I'm also using it in a regular React app and it has quite decent APIs.
jmmease 3y ago
(a current Altair maintainer and a former plotly.py maintainer here) Plotly is definitely a great option as well, and it can do a bunch of things Vega-Altair is not designed for. One comment, just in case you weren't aware, is that there is a relatively new library that provides good integration between Altair and Dash: https://github.com/altair-viz/dash-vega-components https://github.com/altair-viz/dash-vega-components. It even makes it possible to access Altair selection states in Dash callbacks so that you can have other dashboard components respond to selections.
- TheAlchemist 3y ago
  Thank you ! Wasn't aware of that. Are there any plans to improve the interactivity - by that I mean scale on X / Y independently - 'plotly' like ? I know you can bind specifically to one axis, when generating the chart, however, what I usually want is to be able to just zoom in on a specific axis when looking at the chart - Plotly is really great as the behaviour is depending of what you select - a rectangle is just a rectangle (zoom on both axes), a vertical selection zooms on Y axis, and horizontal one on X axis.

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Altair is great. I'm using Plotly more lately, for 2 reasons - chart have very good interactivity by default and I'm also a Dash user - so it comes in naturall

by TheAlchemist 3y ago

pid-1 3y ago
Also Plotly generates Javascript so it has wrappers for many python frameworks such as Streamlit. I'm also using it in a regular React app and it has quite decent APIs.
jmmease 3y ago
(a current Altair maintainer and a former plotly.py maintainer here) Plotly is definitely a great option as well, and it can do a bunch of things Vega-Altair is not designed for. One comment, just in case you weren't aware, is that there is a relatively new library that provides good integration between Altair and Dash: https://github.com/altair-viz/dash-vega-components https://github.com/altair-viz/dash-vega-components. It even makes it possible to access Altair selection states in Dash callbacks so that you can have other dashboard components respond to selections.
- TheAlchemist 3y ago
  Thank you ! Wasn't aware of that. Are there any plans to improve the interactivity - by that I mean scale on X / Y independently - 'plotly' like ? I know you can bind specifically to one axis, when generating the chart, however, what I usually want is to be able to just zoom in on a specific axis when looking at the chart - Plotly is really great as the behaviour is depending of what you select - a rectangle is just a rectangle (zoom on both axes), a vertical selection zooms on Y axis, and horizontal one on X axis.