Generating graphics from tabular data

[amotl]

Pitch

Is graphical output out of scope for omniload? Who defines its features boundaries?

Graphs

plotnine is an excellent package for describing and building graphs.

Maps

Is it viable to have an output adapter that converges tabular data into line-, circle-, or polygon-markers according to a generic, heuristic, or user-defined recipe, and renders the result onto a visual map, emitted as vector- or bitmap image?

References

• https://github.com/komoot/staticmap
• https://github.com/sgraaf/papermap

[amotl]

ggsql

ggsql brings the elegance of the Grammar of Graphics to SQL. Write familiar queries, add visualization clauses, and see your data transform into beautiful, composable charts — no context switching, no separate tools, just SQL with superpowers.

-- https://ggsql.org/
-- https://opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04-20_ggsql_alpha_release/
-- via: the-stats-duck v0.6.0, Statistics that live in your SQL

[amotl]

VISUALIZE bill_length_mm AS x, bill_depth_mm AS y, species AS color
FROM penguins_clean
DRAW point
  SCALE x DOMAIN 30 60
  SCALE y ZERO false
  SCALE color TO viridis;

VISUALIZE bill_length_mm AS x, bill_depth_mm AS y, species AS color
FROM penguins_clean
DRAW point
  FACET BY species COLS
  SCALE x ZERO false
  SCALE y ZERO false;

-- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47833558
-- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48108815