Christopher Davis
Chris is a Professor of Teaching in the Math Department at the University of California, Irvine. Although his research background is in theoretical math, Chris has been teaching introductory programming courses in the math department since 2015. Chris first began contributing to Vega-Altair in 2021, and is currently one of the active maintainers of the library. Sample videos of Chris’s teaching are available at https://youtu.be/n61BNVCuTgM?si=ZYJLh73UgDCAXhZv (from 2013, on cryptography labs using the Sage mathematical software) and at https://youtu.be/Ph--xNiz3kM?si=qtLagdb0oFzHme1t (from a few years ago, on estimating probabilities using Matlab).
Session
This tutorial is an introduction to data visualization using the popular Vega-Altair Python library. Vega-Altair provides a simple, friendly, and consistent API that supports rapid data exploration. Vega-Altair’s flexible support for interactivity enables the creation and sharing of beautiful interactive visualizations.
Participants will learn the foundational concepts that Vega-Altair is built on and will gain hands-on experience exploring a variety of datasets. Of particular interest to the scientific community, this tutorial will cover recent advancements in the Vega-Altair ecosystem that make it possible to scale visualizations to large datasets, and to easily export visualizations to static image formats for publication.