vega VS sqliteviz

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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.

Regarding visualization tools, sqliteviz has proven to be the best I've found so far. Their web app runs locally but has some trackers, so I run it locally via a simple, static HTTP server. Falcon and Redash seem like overkill for my needs.

If I'm not trying to build a very specific graph or chart, and just exploring data I usually use either Rawgraphs or Sqliteviz. Rawgraphs is nice if you just want to swap visualizations out with smaller data as is, sqliteviz seems to handle much larger datasets and let's you use SQL if you want to change the resultset. Both seem to keep data local too and I know sqliteviz works offline, rawgraphs might too.

https://www.rawgraphs.io/

https://sqliteviz.com/

sqliteviz - Instant offline SQL-powered data visualisation in your browser