VegaLite.jl VS AlgebraOfGraphics.jl

Compare VegaLite.jl vs AlgebraOfGraphics.jl and see what are their differences.

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VegaLite.jl AlgebraOfGraphics.jl
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Julia Julia
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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VegaLite.jl

Posts with mentions or reviews of VegaLite.jl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-18.

AlgebraOfGraphics.jl

Posts with mentions or reviews of AlgebraOfGraphics.jl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-04.
  • Makie, a modern and fast plotting library for Julia
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Jul 2023
  • Tidyverse 2.0.0
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2023
    This illustrates the point perfectly. Julia is attempting this and has a beachhead with Dataframes.jl. Confusingly though, Tidier.jl isn't really analogous to R's Tidyverse. It's more like one of a handful of meta-packages around Dataframes.jl.

    Then there are Grammar of Graphics (ggplot was Tidyverse's first star) style plotting libraries that Julia has been building. I'm probably most excited about Algebra of Graphics (https://github.com/MakieOrg/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl/) as part of the Makie Plots ecosystem. It does still feel a bit like Julia community can't decide between following Matplotlib or R's Grid/Ggplot approach.

    The seeds of a Tidyverse for Julia are there, but it'll take some time to achieve the consistency and maturity of the original Tidyverse.

  • What Julia plotting library do you use/think will be the standard going forward?
    1 project | /r/Julia | 1 Apr 2022
    Did you maybe overlook something, in https://github.com/JuliaPlots/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl or other package? I looked up "grid" and it seems to have something. I realize R, and ggplot2, were considered best by many (and Gadfly.jl similar, AoG seems to be its replacement?), but I didn't realize it had extensions (that you clarify below). At least you can call R, and thus use its plotting (and I assume its extensions too, can you confirm or deny?). For some reasons you got downvoted, so might you be ignorant of new developments in Julia (also Makie, to me it seemed excellent and I thought Julia caught up with plotting, and also had more options than other languages), or the others, or people simply very opinionated about plotting? It's about features, also speed/latency/TTFP, which is getting better.
  • Julia Update: Adoption Keeps Climbing; Is It a Python Challenger?
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2021
    Julia has plenty of plotting solutions that are better for stats than matplotlib:

    https://github.com/JuliaPlots/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl

What are some alternatives?

When comparing VegaLite.jl and AlgebraOfGraphics.jl you can also consider the following projects:

Dash.jl - Dash for Julia - A Julia interface to the Dash ecosystem for creating analytic web applications in Julia. No JavaScript required.

Genie.jl - 🧞The highly productive Julia web framework

Chain.jl - A Julia package for piping a value through a series of transformation expressions using a more convenient syntax than Julia's native piping functionality.

StatsPlots.jl - Statistical plotting recipes for Plots.jl

PackageCompiler.jl - Compile your Julia Package

cmssw - CMS Offline Software

RCall.jl - Call R from Julia

PaddedViews.jl - Add virtual padding to the edges of an array

Revise.jl - Automatically update function definitions in a running Julia session