Practical - Visualization-I (Vega-Lite)

Question 1

What tools, libraries, and platforms do you use to create visualizations?

Answer 1

• Excel Chart, Google Chart
• Matplotlib, Seaborn
• Tableau (VizQL)
• Vega/Vega-Lite
• D3.js
• WebGL
• OpenGL
• Manyeyes
• ggplot2
• ProtoVis
• Processing
• Java2D

Question 2

What are the building blocks of data visualizations?

Answer 2

Visualization = Data + Visual Encoding

Question 3

What is Vega-Lite? (from the official doc)

Answer 3

Vega-Lite is a high-level grammar of interactive graphics.