plotnine
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7recommend
0warn against
Nov 25, 2025first mention
Aug 1, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Have you checked out plotnine?”
“This is definitely one of the better Python plotting libraries out there”
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“it gives me a nice ggplot like API”
“One of the best things to happen recently in data science is the plotnine library, bringing the grammar of graphics to python imho”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I worked on the plotnine guide (https://plotnine.org/guide/).”
“the next release (v0.16.0) will bring nice capabilities.”
author of plotnineon “Plotnine”
Threads where it came up
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All comments 13
“Have you checked out plotnine?”
“difficult for me to see the difference between matplotlib, seaborn, and plotnine, when used in this way”
“This is definitely one of the better Python plotting libraries out there”
“plotnine renders plots using matplotlib and has matplotlib as a dependency”
“While it is good to have plotnine for python”
“And it comes with tidyverse-like cheatsheet[1] that I confused with ggplot2 when first discovered plotnine”
“Whilst it's still not yet at 1.0.0, it's not that new”
“Plotnine is heavily inspired by the ggplot2 library”
“I already drifted apart from ggplot2/plotnine in many ways”
“it gives me a nice ggplot like API”
“One of the best things to happen recently in data science is the plotnine library, bringing the grammar of graphics to python imho”
“Seaborn, altair, plotnine all take ggplot's GoG and bring it to Python and I'm really grateful for that.”
“If you want the admittedly very thoughtful design of ggplot in Python, use plotnine”