Simplify the architecture diagram

I like the “architecture” diagram of hvPlot shown at the top of the home page

But I think it could be simplified and cleaned up to community more clearly and be more easy to “speak to”.

• change the 3 plotting arrows to one
• Align the arrows on the same horizontal line
• Align Holoviews and Datashader on the same vertical line
• Put the plotting backends into a dotted circle like the data libraries or remove the circles.
• Align to text headers on the same vertical line and consider if the number of characters could be meaningfully reduced.
• Consider if in any way there is room for indicating the .interactive() api as well.
• Add Streamz to the data sources
• Consider changing Dask, Geopandas, Pandas order to Pandas, Dask, GeoPandas to see the most well known data sources first.

The below quickly indicates the changes

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[philippjfr]

To simplify even further HoloViews and Datashader could be left out depending on the context.

Or made much smaller as a little inset on the arrow leading from hvPlot to the plotting backends.

[jbednar]

The existing “architecture” diagram is a SVG @jbednar . Is that a requirement? Are there other requirements or use cases it needs to meet?

The diagram is an SVG so that we can remix and edit it without losing resolution. E.g. if we want to make some of those icons bigger and others smaller, we can do that without having to track down the original logo pngs. But it’s totally ok to store the SVG in the source tree and actually deliver a PNG in the document; no problem.