Altair Ecosystem Page?

[Zsailer]

I thought I'd propose the idea of adding an Altair Ecosystem Page to Altair's documentation pages.

Something similar to Pandas' Ecosystem Page.

If someone creates a library that extends Altair, it can be listed on this page. Then, users can use this resource to find new ways in which Altair is being used across various domains.

For example--sorry for the shameless plug--nx_altair is a library that extends Altair to draw NetworkX graphs. It doesn't belong directly in Altair, because it has domain-specific functionality. But it might be helpful to users in the Altair community?

Perhaps there isn't much need for this now, but as Altair continues to grow in popularity, more people will be extending Altair to new cool things! It would be great to connect them!

[jakevdp]

Great idea! We could add it in doc/user_guide/ecosystem.rst or something similar.

[Zsailer]

Great! I'll draft up the initial page when I get some time and open a PR.

[ellisonbg]

+1

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Great! I'll draft up the initial page when I get some time and open a PR.

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[jakevdp]

Other notable projects:

• R altair: https://github.com/vegawidget/altair
• pdvega: http://github.com/jakevdp/pdvega

[Zsailer]

• starborn: https://github.com/PythonCharmers/starborn

[curran]

Similar initiative for D3: https://github.com/wbkd/awesome-d3

Maybe awesome-altair could come to life?

[iliatimofeev]

Pandas' Ecosystem Page Mentions Vincent as unmaintained, but Altair is not mentioned at all.

Vincent The Vincent project leverages Vega (that in turn, leverages d3) to create plots. Although functional, as of Summer 2016 the Vincent project has not been updated in over two years and is unlikely to receive further updates.

[iliatimofeev]

• gpdvega: https://iliatimofeev.github.io/gpdvega

gpdvega is a bridge between GeoPandas a geospatial extension of Pandas and the declarative statistical visualization library Altair, which allows to seamlessly chart geospatial data using altair.

Sorry for self promotion :)

[jakevdp]

This just came across the mailing list: https://github.com/piccolbo/altair_recipes

[Zsailer]

Opened initial draft in PR #1100

[jakevdp]

Added in #1100