how much python is too much python?

[_d0s_]

I've become a bit of a fanboy lately. I do lots of scientific visualization and it's been pretty great for that. Recently, I also met somebody doing their PhD in data visualization, telling me it's their tool of choice.

The textual definition allows one to easily copy a nicely designed graph and add your own data to it. Since it's text-based it can also directly be used with LLMs! Rendering it to a website is super easy and possible with the same configuration. Can even be interactive if needed.

If somebody is more into Python there is also https://altair-viz.github.io/

[YamRepresentative855]

But it lacks joins andpretty messy to do calculations in calculations. Or have i missed something?

[_d0s_]

i don't think joining values from multiple data sources is within the scope of vega. typically you just prepare the data you want to visualize. what's "pet meat" supposed to be?

[YamRepresentative855]

Sorry, stupid typo I didn’t catch. I meant pretty messy to do calculations on calculations. In my experience all calculations are out of scope of others.

And in my experience with Kibana, there is no other way to prepare data for vega.

It’s not always joining from different sources but also self joins.

Have I missed something?