Joel Ostblom

> However, the same is not true for other methods and so I'm not sure if this mixes mental models and could make it confusing what these methods actually do....

Thanks for reporting! This is happening because of the automatic type inference for pandas dataframes, which recognizes that the `Release_Date` column consists of strings and sets the type to nominal....

Very cool! I saw that there is an open PR on this in the Vega-Lite repo as well https://github.com/vega/vega-lite/pull/8601. I agree with you that a special function just for this...

A note here that if we add `binding_color`, we should consider deprecating `binding` similarly to what we did with selections in #2923

You're right, there are many cool options to explore. I just discovered that it it possible to build a search box to filter/highlight the data directly in altair/vega-lite! I think...

Yeah, or maybe I can fit them into our current binding and expression sections... I might need to re-organize a bit, but that's ok since I am not sure the...

Thank you for contributing @daniel-finnan ! I haven't seen Altair used with Folium before (and didn't even know folium had vega lite support), that's really cool!

@mcp292 I don't think there is any manually curated repository of papers that use Altair. In Google Scholar you can [click on "cited by" for the original Altair paper](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=7724746563429431111&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en) to...

I should also note that this only happens when an area mark is used. Using a line or point set the x-axis range correctly.

## `"interpolate": "linear-closed"` Removing `"interpolate": "linear-closed"` seems to cause the areas to extend all the way to zero even if there are not data points there. Taking the first spec...