Vega, Vega-Lite, and Altair
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Vega, Vega-Lite, and Altair
@vega-vis.bsky.social
Vega, Vega-Lite, and Altair are declarative formats for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualizations. 📊📈
github.com/vega/altair hit 10k ⭐️ on GitHub recently. Congrats to the Altair team and the amazing community.
GitHub - vega/altair: Declarative visualization library for Python
Declarative visualization library for Python. Contribute to vega/altair development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Tactile charts are an important tool for conveying data to blind and low vision people via embossed paper. However, tactile charts require high levels of time and expertise to design.

Introducing Tactile Vega-Lite, new work at #CHI2025 led by MIT SM student Katie Chen

news.mit.edu/2025/making-...
A new way to make graphs more accessible to blind and low-vision readers
Designed to help blind and low-vision readers understand graphics, the “Tactile Vega-Lite” system from MIT CSAIL converts data into a standard visual graph and a tactile chart. Accessibility standards...
news.mit.edu
March 31, 2025 at 6:49 PM
We have released new versions of Vega 📊 packages (including Vega and Vega-Lite version 6) 🎉. The most significant change is that all packages now use modern ESM, setting us up for a more streamlined future to new features. Check the release notes for other changes.
April 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Kicking off my first #30DayChartChallenge with something special: learning Shiny for #Python and leveling up my #vega altair skills to build interactive visualizations. My first chart has an interactive legend and zoom! Link to Shinylive app and code below 👇
April 1, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Vega (Vega, Vega-Lite, Altair, etc) is now a @numfocus.bsky.social sponsored project. We are excited to continue advancing the visualization and data science ecosystem together on this sustainable foundation.

Plus, you can now sponsor Vega's development: app.hubspot.com/payments/GyP...
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March 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Do you want to animate a @vega-vis.bsky.social vega-lite or @observablehq.com Plot chart? Here is a quick experiment that might help you that animates between two SVGs.
Let me know what you think! #dataviz.
👉🏼 observablehq.com/@john-guerra...
February 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
For Severance (and custom visualization 📊 fans): @giammaria.bsky.social re-created part of the macrodata refinement (severance.wiki/macrodata_re...) UI in Vega. An impressive demonstration of what you can do in Vega.

Try it in the editor at vega.github.io/editor/#/gis...
February 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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I like single-sided violin plots. It's nice to use a tool that can actually make them. #Vega
February 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM