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Eitan Lees
March 03, 2020
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Visualization Grammar
A brief tour of the Vega/Vega-Lite visualization grammar used in Altair
Eitan Lees
March 03, 2020
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Transcript
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide Visualization Grammar
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide A B C &
Variables Observations Tabular Data A B C
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide A,B,C,D,E 4,6,4,4,3 4,4,8,4,3 7,5,5,0,1
5,9,3,0,5 0,1,2,4,2 [ { "A":4, "B":6, "C":4, "D":4, "E":3 }, { "A":4, "B":4, "C":8, "D":4, "E":3 }, { "A":7, "B":5, "C":5, "D":0, "E":1 }, { "A":5, "B":9, "C":3, "D":0, "E":5 }, { "A":0, "B":1, "C":2, "D":4, "E":2 } ] https://eitanlees.com/ABC.csv
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide B A A A
C C C B B and many more ... Text Circle Bar Line
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide X Position Y Position
Size Color ⠇ Channel A B C D ⠇ Variable
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide Calculate Fold Filter Aggregate
and many more ...
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide f(domain) → range
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide A B C Legend
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide Let’s make a chart
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data iris = data.iris() sepalLength sepalWidth PetalLength PetalWidth species 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa ⠇
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data iris = data.iris() alt.Chart(iris).mark_circle()
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data iris = data.iris() alt.Chart(iris).mark_circle() Without an encoding our chart is not very interesting
Data Mark Encoding Transform Scale Guide import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data iris = data.iris() alt.Chart(iris).mark_circle().encode( alt.X('petalLength'), alt.Y('petalWidth') )
Data Mark Encoding Transform import altair as alt from vega_datasets
import data iris = data.iris() alt.Chart(iris).mark_circle().encode( alt.X('petalLength'), alt.Y('petalWidth'), alt.Color('species') ) Scale Guide
Data Mark Encoding Transform import altair as alt from vega_datasets
import data iris = data.iris() alt.Chart(iris).mark_circle().encode( alt.X('petalLength'), alt.Y('petalWidth'), alt.Color('species') ) Scale Guide Note that the guides and scales are automatically generated for us
Data Mark Encoding Transform import altair as alt from vega_datasets
import data iris = data.iris() alt.Chart(iris).mark_circle().encode( alt.X('petalLength'), alt.Y('petalWidth'), alt.Color('species') ).transform_filter( alt.datum.sepalWidth < 3 ) Scale Guide