lux vs vegafusion

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lux		vegafusion
	Project
6	Mentions	2
4,915	Stars	288
0.7%	Growth	2.8%
2.2	Activity	8.7
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	14 days ago
Python	Language	Rust
Apache License 2.0	License	BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

lux

Posts with mentions or reviews of lux. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-12.

Name of library that creates multille charts quickly
1 project | /r/learnpython | 4 Feb 2023
lux VS Rath - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 12 Jan 2023
Mito – Excel-like interface for Pandas dataframes in Jupyter notebook
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 May 2022
Do you see SQL being under threat in any way as a way of querying databases? I know it's possibly a dumb question but wondering.
3 projects | /r/BusinessIntelligence | 27 Sep 2021
Lux - A Python API for Intelligent Visual Discovery
1 project | /r/Python | 27 May 2021
Python API for Intelligent Visual Data Discovery
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2021

vegafusion

Posts with mentions or reviews of vegafusion. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-20.

VegaFusion
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Feb 2024
Mito – Excel-like interface for Pandas dataframes in Jupyter notebook
10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 May 2022

One cool library I saw recently for helping on the visualisation side is https://github.com/vegafusion/vegafusion
It allows you to use Altair in Python for visualising data, but does the computation in the backend using Arrow DataFusion. Not for 15GB perhaps, but cool nonetheless.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing lux and vegafusion you can also consider the following projects:

ydata-profiling - 1 Line of code data quality profiling & exploratory data analysis for Pandas and Spark DataFrames.

qgrid - An interactive grid for sorting, filtering, and editing DataFrames in Jupyter notebooks

cyberdrop-downloader - Cyberdrop.me album downloader written in Go

dtale - Visualizer for pandas data structures

pandas-profiling - Create HTML profiling reports from pandas DataFrame objects [Moved to: https://github.com/ydataai/pandas-profiling]

Altair - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python

mito - The mitosheet package, trymito.io, and other public Mito code.

dataprep - Open-source low code data preparation library in python. Collect, clean and visualization your data in python with a few lines of code.

datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data