# uwdata/visualization-curriculum

A data visualization curriculum of interactive notebooks.

Repository: https://github.com/uwdata/visualization-curriculum
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/visualization-curriculum
Homepage: https://idl.uw.edu/visualization-curriculum/
Language: Jupyter Notebook
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: visualization-curriculum, altair, interactive-notebooks
Last push: 2026-05-20T15:19:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 83, release rhythm 49, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2715, "days_push": 105, "days_rel": 125, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1368, forks 273 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:31.678093+00:00)

## What it is
A data visualization curriculum of interactive notebooks teaching Vega-Lite and Altair, available as Jupyter, marimo, and Observable notebooks. It is published as a Jupyter Book and runnable online via Colab, Deepnote, Nextjournal, or molab, or locally.

## Use cases
- learn data visualization with altair
- teach a university data visualization course
- learn vega-lite grammar of graphics
- interactive notebooks for chart encoding and data transformation
- self-study visualization fundamentals
- find runnable visualization notebook examples

## When to choose
- you want a structured, hands-on introduction to Altair/Vega-Lite
- you need course-ready notebooks runnable in Colab or locally
- you prefer learning visualization concepts through interactive examples

## When to avoid
- you need a production charting library rather than learning material
- you want tooling for dashboards or BI rather than a curriculum
- you need visualization libraries in languages other than Python or JavaScript

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: stable
- function: data-visualization, developer-tools
- domain: data-visualization, education, tutorials
- platform: python, jvm-scripting, cross-platform
- tags: altair, vega-lite, jupyter-notebooks, marimo, observable, interactive-notebooks, curriculum, web-server

## Member repositories
- uwdata/visualization-curriculum (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:31.678093+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:41:05.150289+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/uwdata/visualization-curriculum (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:31.678093+00:00, sha e780a238361e)
  - homepage: https://idl.uw.edu/visualization-curriculum/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:58:07.367971+00:00, sha aaa595576c33)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.