https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/

A concise grammar of interactive graphics, built on Vega.
https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/

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A concise grammar of interactive graphics, built on Vega.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
• Owner: vega
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2014-11-20T20:52:04.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-05-02T08:04:45.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-05-13T12:00:26.921Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: charts, declarative-language, plot, vega, vega-lite, visual-analysis, visualization, visualization-grammar
• Language: TypeScript
• Homepage: https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/
• Size: 314 MB
• Stars: 4,860
• Watchers: 90
• Forks: 638
• Open Issues: 772
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
  • Support: .github/SUPPORT.md

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# Vega-Lite 

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![Teaser](site/static/teaser.png)

[Vega-Lite](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/) provides a higher-level grammar for visual analysis that generates complete [Vega](https://vega.github.io/) specifications.

You can find more details, [documentation](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/docs/), [examples](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/), [usage instructions](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/usage/embed.html), and [tutorials](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/tutorials/getting_started.html) on the [Vega-Lite website](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/).

Try using Vega-Lite in the online [Vega Editor](https://vega.github.io/editor/#/examples/vega-lite/bar).

Contributions are also welcome. Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for contribution and development guidelines and our [Code of Conduct](https://vega.github.io/vega/about/code-of-conduct/).

Read about future plans in [our roadmap](https://github.com/vega/roadmap/projects/).

## Team

The development of Vega-Lite is led by the alumni and members of the [University of Washington Interactive Data Lab](https://idl.cs.washington.edu) (UW IDL), including [Kanit "Ham" Wongsuphasawat](https://kanitw.github.io) (now at Databricks), [Dominik Moritz](https://bsky.app/profile/domoritz.de) (now at CMU / Apple), [Arvind Satyanarayan](https://bsky.app/profile/arvind.bsky.social) (now at MIT), and [Jeffrey Heer](https://bsky.app/profile/jheer.org) (UW IDL).

Vega-Lite gets significant contributions from its community. Please see the [contributors page](https://github.com/vega/vega-lite/graphs/contributors) for the full list of contributors.

## Citing Vega-Lite

```bib

@article{2017-vega-lite,

  doi = {10.1109/tvcg.2016.2599030},

  year = {2017},

  author = {Arvind Satyanarayan and Dominik Moritz and Kanit Wongsuphasawat and Jeffrey Heer},

  title = {Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics},

  journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Visualization \& Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis)},

  url = {http://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/vega-lite},

}

```