seaborn_altair

Seaborn-compatible API for interactive Vega-Lite plots via Altair.

Installation

pip install seaborn_altair

Works in Jupyter lab or Jupyter notebooks.

Usage

import seaborn_altair as salt
import seaborn as sns
tips = sns.load_dataset("tips")

# Use salt as you would sns
salt.barplot(x="day", y="total_bill", data=tips)

API

This is only a proof of concept at this time. Only a subset of Seaborn plots (the ones with example links) are currently available with limited support.

Axis grids

• FacetGrid Subplot grid for plotting conditional relationships.
• catplot Draw a categorical plot onto a FacetGrid.
• lmplot Plot data and regression model fits across a FacetGrid.
• PairGrid Subplot grid for plotting pairwise relationships in a dataset.
• pairplot Plot pairwise relationships in a dataset.
• JointGrid Grid for drawing a bivariate plot with marginal univariate plots.
• jointplot Draw a plot of two variables with bivariate and univariate graphs.

Categorical plots

• stripplot Draw a scatterplot where one variable is categorical.
• swarmplot Draw a categorical scatterplot with non-overlapping points.
• boxplot Draw a box plot to show distributions with respect to categories.
• violinplot Draw a combination of boxplot and kernel density estimate.
• lvplot Draw a letter value plot to show distributions of large datasets.
• pointplot Show point estimates and confidence intervals using scatter plot glyphs.
• barplot Show point estimates and confidence intervals as rectangular bars.
• countplot Show the counts of observations in each categorical bin using bars.

Distribution plots

• distplot Flexibly plot a univariate distribution of observations.
• kdeplot Fit and plot a univariate or bivariate kernel density estimate.
• rugplot Plot datapoints in an array as sticks on an axis.

Regression plots

• regplot Plot data and a linear regression model fit.
• residplot Plot the residuals of a linear regression.

Matrix plots

• heatmap Plot rectangular data as a color-encoded matrix.
• clustermap Plot a matrix dataset as a hierarchically-clustered heatmap.

Timeseries plots

• tsplot Plot one or more timeseries with flexible representation of uncertainty.

Miscellaneous plots

• palplot Plot the values in a color palette as a horizontal array.

matplotlib.pyplot utilities

• pyplot.hist
• pyplot.plot
• pyplot.scatter

Credit

Idea from Jake VanderPlas. I know Python and Vega-Lite reasonably well, so decided to give it a shot.

Contributions and suggestions welcome!