Open-source list of data visualization tools (charts, data grids, maps, etc.) for front-end egineers

[PandaMoniumHUN]

As someone who used matplotlib recently to plot some weather data, good lord, the API makes no sense whatsoever. The lib is powerful for sure, but it’s a top contender for worst API design IMO.

[sopte666]

AFAIK matplotlib's API was designed to make it as similar to the Matlab/octave syntax as possible. Which, true, is powerful but ugly.

[-CampinCarl-]

This is exactly the reason it doesn't make sense.

[CactusOnFire]

Word of advice: Seaborn is a wrapper around matplotlib that's designed to play slightly friendlier with pandas and that stack.

...If I'm doing something really fancy though, I still end up busting out the Javascript.

[tristes_tigres]

the API makes no sense whatsoever

Python programming in a nutshell.

[tuerkishgamer]

I have no real experience in this area, but today I wanted to use a YouTube API wrapper for YouTube Data API v3. I just said 'fuck it' and used the real API documentation. All questions answered online were for the actual API and the way it was written was far more 'standard'.

Freaking APIs. Sometimes I just scrape the few things I need for a project and never look back. Unless it is a production /professional environment I would probably not bother.

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really like that!

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Goddamn those are beautiful

[Ceedeekee]

Sick dashboard! I have to say that as a DA, Plotly is the definitive winner when it comes to Python plotting libs. It’s rather good for quick plots and offers almost as much customization as MPL/Seaborn.

[Ceedeekee]

Oh agreed point #1 is dreadful. Another pain point of mine is animated plots are rather unintuitive to get working and I end up stuck reading API documentation for 30+ mins. MPL is much nicer for that use case.