Python Data Visualization Transcripts
Chapter: Altair
Lecture: Installing
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Now, we'll walk through how to install altair and all the components you'll likely need
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The base charting components are in the altair package that you can install with pip And this controls all of the basic API for plotting.
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As I mentioned, altair also translates your python code into java script.
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One of the things that can happen is you can get really large jupyter notebook files
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So the altair data server package can be helpful for managing those large data sets
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so that your notebooks don't get so large and you have trouble maintaining them in GIT
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hub or some other format. The final package you might need is Altair Saver, which is a package that you can use to save files.
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This may be a little more difficult to set up on a Windows system. So I definitely recommend using condat to install all of the drivers.
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Once you have these three packages set up, you should be good to go for starting to work with altair.