Plotting in R's ggplot2 vs Python's Matplotlib: Is it just me or is ggplot2 WAY smoother of an experience than Matplotlib?

1. plotnine

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   A Grammar of Graphics for Python

   

   Check out plotnine https://plotnine.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ It does a decent job at providing ggplot2 behaviors. There are rough edges but it’s still better than the other options in my opinion.

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3. PandasGUI

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4. ggplot

   3 3 3,701 0.0 Python

   ggplot port for python

   

   I'd agree in that it's a well-specified language for defining graphics; it's not very good with rendering performance. There are packages which try to achieve similar goals in Python as well (ggplot / ggpy) and packages like Seaborn. Though, like you, I use R for lots of EDA. Hard to beat data.table and R graphics for speed and expressiveness. I prefer base graphics though; ggplot2 tends to render too slowly for any data sets I work with.

5. seaborn

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   Statistical data visualization in Python

   

   I'd agree in that it's a well-specified language for defining graphics; it's not very good with rendering performance. There are packages which try to achieve similar goals in Python as well (ggplot / ggpy) and packages like Seaborn. Though, like you, I use R for lots of EDA. Hard to beat data.table and R graphics for speed and expressiveness. I prefer base graphics though; ggplot2 tends to render too slowly for any data sets I work with.

6. Altair

   5 46 9,514 9.4 Python

   Declarative visualization library for Python

   

   If I need to be in Python world though, I really like Altair, which is a Pythonic implementation of the Grammar of Graphics. It's better than ggplot2 clones for Python because it has a big developer behind it and is written in a way that naturally makes use of Python constructs, rather than trying to force R constructs in Python.

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