Vega-Altair: A Structured Way to Build Interactive Charts
This tutorial is an introduction to data visualization using the popular Vega-Altair Python library. Vega-Altair provides a simple and expressive API, enabling authors to rapidly create a wide range of interactive charts.
Participants will explore the fundamentals of effective chart design and gain hands-on experience building a variety of visualizations using Vega-Altair's declarative API. Furthermore, this tutorial will introduce users to advanced topics such as data transformations and interaction design. We will finish off by covering practical workflows such as integrating Vega-Altair into dashboarding systems, publishing visualizations, and creating reusable, themed charting libraries. By the end of the session, attendees will have the skills to leverage Vega-Altair for both rapid prototyping and production-ready visualizations in diverse environments
