any difference from altair?

[den-run-ai]

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[saeedamen]

@denfromufa thanks for the question! From what I understand Altair allows users to specify plots in a higher level manner which is simpler than the typical syntax. chartpy also seeks to have a simple API for plotting. From what I understand, Altair outputs JSON for use with the vega plotting library as a backend.

chartpy is a bit different, given it lets you use matplotlib, Plotly and Bokeh as a charting backend (I choose these, given they seem to be the most popular plotting libraries for Python). The idea is that the chartpy API should be virtually the same whether you are using matplotlib, Plotly and Bokeh (just change one keyword to switch libraries). I'm also planning on adding other plotting libraries like bqplot too, to chartpy and also more plot types too.

I'm hoping chartpy will save folks a lot of time when it comes to creating charts, building on the great work of matplotlib, Plotly and Bokeh.