vega-lite-linter

Fixing your visualization design written in Vega-Lite based on the Answer Set Programming.

Setup

Step 1: install Clingo

First, you need to install Clingo.

For MacOS

brew install clingo

Using Conda

conda install -c potassco clingo

For other system, please look up to https://potassco.org/clingo/

Step 2: install vega-lite-linter

pip install vega-lite-linter

Usage

from vega_lite_linter import Lint 

vega_json = {
    "data": {
        "url": "data/cars.json"
    },
    "mark": "bar",
    "encoding": {
        "x": {
            "field": "Horsepower",
            "type": "quantitative"
        },
        "y": {
            "field": "Miles_per_Gallon",
            "type": "quantitative"
        },
        "size": {
            "field": "Cylinders",
            "type": "ordinal"
        }
    }
}

# initialize 
lint = Lint(vega_json)

# show rules that the input vega-lite json violated
violate_rules = lint.lint()

# show fixing recommendation by vega-lite-linter
fix = lint.fix()

License

The software is available under the MIT License.

Contact

If you have any question, feel free to open an issue.