Python Data Visualization Transcripts
Chapter: Altair
Lecture: Shorthand API
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Before we go through examples of developing altair plots. I want to describe the API. There are two versions of the
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API. There's a shorthand and a longer version. We'll start with the short and simple version. Both of them start with importing altair as
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ALT. This is the code to show displacement versus fuel costs for the
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data frame. We've been working with, each altair plot starts with a chart object which
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is the foundation and you define which data frame you want to plot. Then you use the mark options to indicate what type of plot.
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In this case I want to plot circles but you could do bar charts, lines, area plots or geographic images.
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There are many different options. The next step is to encode your data frame to
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the visual channels and what that means is you want to tell in this case the X and Y axis which columns to use in your data frame.
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But you can also use those columns to inform the size the shape, the color, maybe add some text or alternative X and Y axes.
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This basic structure allows a lot of flexibility for visualization and I encourage you to keep
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this quick reference sheet handy as we go through the visualization so you can start to see how you can use for your own data visualization.