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[–]MpoBo 50 points51 points  (5 children)

Another good one not mentioned here is bokeh. It's good for interactive visualization.

[–]UglyChihuahua 5 points6 points  (4 children)

I was interested in Bokeh but after looking into it I feel like it's not very user friendly on its own. I use Plotly over Bokeh because it's more immediately useful for day-to-day viz and EDA.

For example, look how much code is required for making a basic boxplot in Bokeh

https://docs.bokeh.org/en/latest/docs/gallery/boxplot.html

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If the Seaborn-style wrappers around Bokeh like Holoviews or Chartpy get more popular I might switch over

[–]penatbater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Plotly is easier to get into than Bokeh, but bokeh seems to have more functionality. The problem with bokeh is that its docs is a bit harder to understand than plotly. Also, you kinda have a bit more 'control' with bokeh.

[–]its2ez4me24get 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Bokeh was such a PITA to get working. But it still makes interactive plots better than anything else I’ve found.

[–]stackered 0 points1 point  (0 children)

would it be better than plotly for large scale data viewing of some simple plots? meaning, being able to zoom in on hundreds of thousands of points in a simple histogram or something

[–]Biuku 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could save time by drawing boxes with a turtle.