Python Visualization Landscape

Sophia Yang, Ph.D.
7 min readOct 25, 2019

Visualization is a big and hot topic. Many developers have their own solutions and contributed to many visualization packages in Python. Entering the Python visualization world, most people start with matplotlib. But matplotlib is limited in many ways. If you want to visualize a more complicated graph or with a lot more data, where can you go next? Which visualization library should you use? What does the Python visualization landscape look like? These are the questions I have pondered and there are many great resources out there to learn about the visualization landscape.