Altair: Interactive Statistical Visualizations for Python
Brian E. Granger
      Eitan Lees
      Ilia Timofeev
      Ben Welsh
      Scott Sievert
      
        Published at
        
          
        
        The Journal of Open Source Software
        
        
        2018
      
    
    
   
  Abstract
      Altair is a declarative statistical visualization library for Python.
Statistical visualization is a constrained subset of data visualization focused
on the creation of visualizations that are helpful in statistical modeling. The
constrained model of statistical visualization is usually expressed in terms of
a visualization grammar that specifies how input data is transformed and mapped
to visual properties (position, color, size, etc.).