vega VS plotters

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For those curious, the stack is a simple Django app with HTMX/Alpine and all of the charts are specified and rendered as Vega (https://vega.github.io/vega/). Lots of LLM function calling under the hood as well.

I recently added support for plotting XGBoost models using Vega (https://vega.github.io/vega/) into the XGBoost Elixir API (https://github.com/acalejos/exgboost).

Since EXGBoost supports loading trained models across different APIs, you can even train using the Python API and then plot using this Elixir API if you prefer.

The Data Source is from devjobsscanner (I am basically the owner, so I have the data) an the tool used to make the chart is Vega

It’s based on Vega https://vega.github.io/vega/ which means it’s an already matured backend. Vega-lite is the Javascript package and Altair is the Python.

Site:: https://vega.github.io/vega/

Eh, I have no reason to, and not much interest in PHP anymore. Things like Vega seem really cool.

This chart is make with Vega (and also all the charts from the article). Data source is from devjobsscanner and contains about 10 Million dev jobs offers, which only a small subset contain salary information thought.

Not that I'm working on it, but I'd love to see a vega stack in rust.

plotter-rs Cairo backend: Specific backend to interact with a gtk-rs DrawingArea widget.

I would also look at plotters https://github.com/plotters-rs/plotters to replace mathplotlib. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any library for image transformations/augmentations.

Have you looked into plotters https://github.com/plotters-rs/plotters ? I think it should be possible to integrate it into an app.

About plots, besides plotly, take a look at https://github.com/plotters-rs/plotters and https://github.com/milliams/plotlib

I'd recommend plotters, I've only used it for it's drawing api and I found it quite nice for text rendering.

- https://github.com/plotters-rs/plotters

For those who do not know about them, polars is a data frame crate for Rust and Python. It is also the fastest data frame library, according to benchmarks. Plotters is a crate for data visualisation. Both are the equivalents of pandas and matplotlib from the Python ecosystem. However, the integration with matplotlib in pandas has no equivalent. I would like to propose an effort to integrate polars with plotters, either by modifying the existing codebases, or creating a new bridge crate. I would love to hear opinions about this from the widder community.