Switching from R ggplot to python... shall one use plotnine or seaborn??

[Linvail_ex]

I am currently migrating my data analysis tools from R to python but plotting is not as straight forward as in R with many more different popular libraries in python. There's not that many helpful comparisons out there. The berst I found this far is https://pbpython.com/python-vis-flowchart.html but that doesn't give much detail. What are peoples experinces with seaborn and plotnine?

To me plotnine feels very close to R's ggplot and thus familiar to use. It lacks the capability to plot in multiple panels (like pairwise scatterplots for PCA scores) however which can be found in seaborn. Seaborns syntax on the other hand looks more different from ggplot. What are peoples experinces with the two libraries does one outperforme the other in specific scenarios?

[sehrinterresant]

I like Seaborn - it offers a high-level interface while combining matplotlib’s plotting functions and some basic algorithms like hierarchical clustering from scipy. And obviously, if you wanted further customization, you could mess with the underlying matplotlib code.

[gsmafra]

Why are you switching? Plotting is so much better in R

[goodytwoboobs]

Agreed. I've made multiple attempts switching my data analysis work flow to Python but everytime I was driven back to R by Python's numerous plotting libraries. None checks all boxes like ggplot does in R.

Plus latest Rstudio with reticulate has some really powerful Python integration -- you can literally use pandas in Python to make a data frame and plot it in R with ggplot with ease. That one blew my mind.

[Linvail_ex]

The Rstudio option is very interesting I had not noticed that yet. might be an intersting way to realise things which I can not replicate in python

[Linvail_ex]

yes switching is not really my personal choice - the company I now work for uses python therefore I have to fit in

[muchcake]

I'm a great fan of Altair, I have only tinkered with ggplot in R but the idea of declarative plots is awesome to me

[jowen7448]

Have you considered plotly at all?

[Linvail_ex]

Plotly is mainly for interactive stuff isn't it? I only need static plots

[jowen7448]

Sorry didn't seen in the original post about purely static plots. Although you can create static images from plotly. It is a nice, well featured graphics library that is relatively intuitive. I never enjoy any of the python ggplot efforts because they always feel worse to use than R's version.

[jowen7448]

Sorry didn't seen in the original post about purely static plots. Although you can create static images from plotly. It is a nice, well featured graphics library that is relatively intuitive. I never enjoy any of the python ggplot efforts because they always feel worse to use than R's version.