Python Data Visualization Transcripts
Chapter: Altair
Lecture: Overview
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I'll go into a little bit more background about the history and Altair and where it
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fits in the python ecosystem. It is a much newer entrants when compared to Mat Plot Lib and Seaborn being released in 2016.
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And as I mentioned, it is based on a javascript framework using the vega and vega lite formats,
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it is a declared of statistical visualization library and gives a grammar that you can use to translate your data into the visualizations you want.
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Some of the key aspects of this is that does leverage a panda's data frame and
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you build links between the columns in your data frame and the visual encoding channels and
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we'll talk about that in a minute of what that means and what the implications are Then altair takes this and plots the details. At the end of the day.
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It is a very concise grammar, but you can build very sophisticated, interactive and visually appealing plots of your data.