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1 week ago User feedback
Cross-referencing some feedback I've seen in polars:
https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/pull/17995#issuecomment-2316605863
One advantage of hvplot / bokeh is the free interactivity. Altair does interactive too but I think only in a subset. Please consider having a config for interactivity.
https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/pull/17995#issuecomment-2319700036
@joelostblom Thanks for the links.
Yup, whenever it makes sense for it to be the default, at least I would prefer interactive becoming the default. It may not be acceptable for everyone, so whenever
.interactive()is as mature as you'd like, bringing this up a poll/discussion in altair's repo will help understand what users want.
https://github.com/pola-rs/polars/pull/17995#issuecomment-2439144285
The new default plots from Altair have reduced the interactivity of plots. I've gone back to using
hvplotbecause I struggled to get useful images out of Altair.Was this a premature move considering Altair is missing essential features:
- zoom to selection
- resize plot
- hover to show datapoint
Was the main intent to deliver a basic plotting experience without adding many dependencies?
What is your suggestion?
I'm wondering if it would be helpful if
.interactive()did more by default. I'm primarily thinking about adding a tooltip (of the plotted encodings), and an interactive legend (based on opacity). There should of course be some way to turn these on/off, so that they don't interfere with manually set up bindings (maybechart.interactive(legend=False).Have you considered any alternative solutions?
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