Altair VS ggplot2

Compare Altair vs ggplot2 and see what are their differences.

Altair

Declarative statistical visualization library for Python (by vega)

ggplot2

An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R (by tidyverse)
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Altair ggplot2
42 62
8,912 6,316
1.3% 1.2%
9.0 9.4
12 days ago 8 days ago
Python R
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Altair

Posts with mentions or reviews of Altair. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

ggplot2

Posts with mentions or reviews of ggplot2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Altair and ggplot2 you can also consider the following projects:

plotly - The interactive graphing library for Python :sparkles: This project now includes Plotly Express!

tmap - R package for thematic maps

bokeh - Interactive Data Visualization in the browser, from Python

vega - A visualization grammar.

seaborn - Statistical data visualization in Python

dplyr - dplyr: A grammar of data manipulation

ggplot - ggplot port for python

worldfootballR - A wrapper for extracting world football (soccer) data from FBref, Transfermark, Understat and fotmob

plotnine - A Grammar of Graphics for Python

glue - Glue strings to data in R. Small, fast, dependency free interpreted string literals.

matplotlib - matplotlib: plotting with Python

deneb - Deneb is a custom visual for Microsoft Power BI, which allows developers to use the declarative JSON syntax of the Vega or Vega-Lite languages to create their own data visualizations.