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by nextos 1080 days ago
The best plotting APIs I have seen are those from MATLAB and Mathematica. I have used Makie a few times, and it is very flexible and well designed.

I am hoping they provide a declarative API that emulates Gadfly more closely. Gadfly is great for simple statistics, sort of a Julia equivalent to ggplot2.
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auxym 1080 days ago
Matplotlib is heavily inspired by MATLAB's plotting, no? Its pyplot submodule is a wrapper around the base OO API which is an almost exact clone of matlab.
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throwawaymaths 1080 days ago
Matlab and Mathematica are awesome. Gadfly had a great API but suffered greatly from Julia's ttfp problem. Tried makie, looked good but that was around when I left Julia (just because other langs paid). VegaLite is pretty amazing.
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velsi 1080 days ago
Check: https://github.com/MakieOrg/AlgebraOfGraphics.jl
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nextos 1080 days ago
I know about this. It's heading in the right direction, but still lacks many Gadfly features, let alone ggplot2 ones.
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