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  • Altair

    Declarative statistical visualization library for Python

    After reading through the user guide [1], I found that it does have decent (although not super clean) object model and the all SO-suggesting cryptic APIs are Huffman-encoded shorthand. With the right mental model, Matplotlib became much less intimidating than what it originally was. So, I'd suggest you RTFM if you found it funky.

    I'm mostly using Altair instead of Matplotlib these days since my data is mostly tabular, it still maintains a position in my toolbox and helps me when I need some dirty (or creative) visualization that is tricky with Altair.

    And to be honest, I occasionally miss Matplotlib's dense API when I'm fed up with the verbosity Altair has.

    - [1] https://matplotlib.org/stable/users/index.html

    - [2] https://altair-viz.github.io/

  • gnuplotlib

    gnuplot for numpy

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  • plotly

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

    I’ve switched away to Plotly a while ago. It matured a lot in the past year or two. It’s extremely easy to use and I’ve been holding presentations with it routinely. It’s worth a try.

    https://plotly.com/python/

    I haven’t used matplotlib since! (over 2 years)

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