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I feel this repo has fallen behind. I think it could be a useful tool for reference as well as a place for explanations of more detailed examples such as 09-Measles.ipynb.

Seeing the steps involved in building more complex visualizations is a key insight which I feel is sometimes missing in the main documentation. I think the Marginal Scatterplot, Wheat and Wages, and Seattle Weather examples are candidates which would benefit from showing in more detail how the components are built.

In any case I think updating the current notebooks to v 4.0 is important.

I would love to help with the process of updating and maintaining the altair_notebooks project but I wanted to check in first to gauge the communities interest. Are there any changes you would like to see?

Yes, updating this would be great! The repo has definitely been neglected.

Hey @joelostblom! I think turning this repo into a Jupyter Book would be a great idea. It's funny, after posting this issue I never got around to actually fixing things up. So it goes ...

PRs are welcome :slightly_smiling_face:

@eitanlees Ok! I will see if I can find some time this or next weekend to do it! Btw, when the material is updated, it might be a good idea to combine it with the Pycon 2018 material into one updated learning resources? I only glanced at the content but it seems somewhat similar and I am thinking it will be easier for learners if there is either a clear distinction between the two or if they are merged. I know time is an issue, but what do you think about this conceptually?

Absolutely. Most of these notebooks are just enumerations of different chart types. Almost like a reference. I think integrating them into the Pycon 2018 material makes sense. Maybe under a new repo? or just fold them into the Pycon 2018 repo? I don't know ...

What I thought was interesting about this repo was notebooks like 09-Measles.ipynb in which a visualization is built up from scratch showing the iteration and fine-tuning. I found seeing this process was illuminating. I thought a collection of case studies like that would be useful.

(PS I recently had my first child! Exciting! As such, time is very much an issue :sweat_smile:
I do very much miss working on Altair and when the time is right I look forward to contributing again.)