Any 'pretty' data visualization libraries for Python?

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There are plenty of 'pretty-printing' visualization libraries for Javascript. E.g. those listed here.

Googling for 'python visualization libraries' only turns up stuff like VTK and mayavi, which are primarily more for no-nonsense scientific use.

So, do you know of any Python libraries similar to those Javascript ones in the above link? I particularly like the Javascript Infovis Toolkit.

score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 12 '13 at 09:48

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For Python there really isn't "one viz library to rule them all". There are different libraries and toolkits for different purposes. For graphs in Python you may find igraph useful. For other types of scientific or data visualizations matplotlib is also good.

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answered Apr 20 '10 at 18:11

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score 5 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 05 '13 at 11:31

Here's a new port of R's ggplot2 over to python. Looks very slick!

https://github.com/yhat/ggplot/

More info here: http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/ggplot-for-python.html

Also have a look at Seaborn, described as "Improved matplotlib for statistical data visualization": https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn

The Seaborn examples are pretty slick:

Plotting Complex Linear Models

Visualization Distributions

Time Series Visualizations

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 21 '13 at 17:43

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Check out Bokeh at pydata

source code here

answered Nov 21 '13 at 17:43

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 20 '10 at 17:59

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There's PyCha for charts.

answered Apr 20 '10 at 17:59

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 20 '10 at 18:46

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are you looking for graph software?

Checkout http://www.graphviz.org/Gallery.php. it has python bindings.

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 19 '12 at 21:35

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I second matplotlib. Also Chaco. It's not Python, but for really quick heatmaps, go to OpenHeatMap.com

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score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Jun 11 '12 at 04:08

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Networkx looks to be the best-documented of the graph libraries I've seen. I think it interfaces with Matplotlib for visualization.

answered Jun 11 '12 at 04:08

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Networkx is absolutely awesome. You can produce some nice looking stuff with it via Matplotlib or you can use [Pygraphviz](http://pygraphviz.github.io/) to have it talk to Graphviz. – Clay Apr 23 '14 at 19:07

Any 'pretty' data visualization libraries for Python?

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