Altair Hackathon?

New to Altair, but enthusiastic. I’d like to propose the idea of an Altair Hackathon. I don’t know the community well enough to organize it. But I imagine a day or weekend spending a large portion of the time developing more examples, and blog posts, along with the usual code base development and issue queue resolution. The API documentation is very concise, and more examples would help grow the user base.

A Google search for:

how to put on a hackathon

yields some promising guides.

[mroswell]

Yay, all! Was a delight to spend time with everyone. Would love to see a wrap-up posted here. I’ll start:

• Created Google Group - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/altair-viz
• Began writing PyCon Altair tutorial proposal
• Identified bug in doc examples that used vega-lite data files; Chris and Jake fixed the CORS error. Yay!
• Hilit the FutureWarning issue, which somebody (Jake? Brian?) fixed
• Installed Sphinx, and got to know it a bit.
• Proposed ReadTheDocs theme for documentation. Identified two bugs. Jake fixed one. I’ve got a PR for the other. So, docs are now responsive, searchable with a left-hand menu that expands to show section detail. Text is more readable as well.
• Learned which issues I’ve ID’d in my use of Altair that are on the ‘wait-for-version-2’ list, and which could be addressed with some more advanced formatting. Finally got my monthly dates on my multi-year data chart, too, with angled labels in the proper location and format. yay! If you angle a label, you may need: labelAlign="right" in the axis.
• Developed idea for a video or even a selectable text video-seeming interactive where one new bit is added to a chart over time, and the results of each addition are displayed. It’s more of a longer-term project, I think… Would love to have a vega-lite-style editor, but for Altair, to facilitate (so that’s two ideas, really… the interactive (ideally allowing copy-paste from any timestamp in the chart development; and the idea of a live Altair editor; The latter may be something that could eventually be done in JupyterLab?)
• Enjoyed presentations on Altair, Vega-lite and Voyager
• Enjoyed pupusas, yuca, pastelitos, and ayote at the Pupuseria 😃

[ellisonbg]

I could make Oct 16/17, if the UW folks are around. Sorry about the scheduling delays, I was supposed to move into a new house months ago, and it has gotten pushed back to late Oct, making all travel difficult to schedule. What other folks could make those days?

On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 9:46 PM, Dominik Moritz [e-mail] wrote:

@jakevdp https://github.com/jakevdp @ellisonbg https://github.com/ellisonbg @kanitw https://github.com/kanitw Should we do October 16/17?

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