State of the Repo

[eitanlees]

I feel this repo has fallen behind. I think it could be a useful tool for reference as well as a place for explanations of more detailed examples such as 09-Measles.ipynb.

Seeing the steps involved in building more complex visualizations is a key insight which I feel is sometimes missing in the main documentation. I think the Marginal Scatterplot, Wheat and Wages, and Seattle Weather examples are candidates which would benefit from showing in more detail how the components are built.

In any case I think updating the current notebooks to v 4.0 is important.

I would love to help with the process of updating and maintaining the altair_notebooks project but I wanted to check in first to gauge the communities interest. Are there any changes you would like to see?

[jakevdp]

Yes, updating this would be great! The repo has definitely been neglected.

[eitanlees]

Hey @joelostblom! I think turning this repo into a Jupyter Book would be a great idea. It's funny, after posting this issue I never got around to actually fixing things up. So it goes ...

[eitanlees]

PRs are welcome 🙂

[joelostblom]

@eitanlees Ok! I will see if I can find some time this or next weekend to do it! Btw, when the material is updated, it might be a good idea to combine it with the Pycon 2018 material into one updated learning resources? I only glanced at the content but it seems somewhat similar and I am thinking it will be easier for learners if there is either a clear distinction between the two or if they are merged. I know time is an issue, but what do you think about this conceptually?

[eitanlees]

Absolutely. Most of these notebooks are just enumerations of different chart types. Almost like a reference. I think integrating them into the Pycon 2018 material makes sense. Maybe under a new repo? or just fold them into the Pycon 2018 repo? I don't know ...

What I thought was interesting about this repo was notebooks like 09-Measles.ipynb in which a visualization is built up from scratch showing the iteration and fine-tuning. I found seeing this process was illuminating. I thought a collection of case studies like that would be useful.

[eitanlees]

(PS I recently had my first child! Exciting! As such, time is very much an issue 😅
I do very much miss working on Altair and when the time is right I look forward to contributing again.)