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Best plotting libraries? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml
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I'm thinking of writing a plotting library (similar to e.g. matplotlib), that calls into an existing, established library (such as matplotlib), and I can use javascript, python, C/C++, or shell. I'm plotting datasets, not functions. I need to be able to plot 2D and 3D. Which libraries should I look at?

I guess I care about

  • feature set
  • how intuitive it is
  • how pretty the graphs are
  • that it's reasonably fast
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[–] 1 point 2 months ago*

Plotly is pretty much all you need. It can create static plots like matplotlib, but it also has dynamic plus in which you can interact with your data, zoom in, rotate, etc. It is my favorite and I haven't come across anything better.

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