Jeffrey Heer

Closing, moved to #358.

Thanks @willium, I'd be happy to review a PR for this. At minimum, I think supporting an `'auto'` parsing directive for a specific column makes sense (option 2 above).

It would be helpful to also flesh out the expected encoding channels. Center x, y; x, y radii, rotation angle — anything else? Is partial ellipse (arc) support needed? Also...

Thank you for catching and filing the issue! Technically this is not a Vega bug; for example, if you run the local web tests in vega-lib, the error does not...

Vega 5 now includes expanded View constructor options, including for enabling hover processing and passing a parent DOM element container. I encourage everyone to use those instead of the previous...

Hmm. Function resolution is done at parse time (e.g., functions may resolve to actual function calls, or to inlined generated code), so with the current setup we can't (in general)...

From my Vega developer perspective: I think ordinal still has value -- primarily for ordinal color scales. I would also assume that a default order (numerical or lexicographic) is applied...

I think internal distinctions are a different discussion (or at least should be) from discussions of the external API. I also don't follow your response to my comment above. Whether...

@kanitw Can you please describe in greater detail what you are suggesting Vega should do? Thanks!

I took a closer look. The tooltip tissue here is that indeed the brush is realized as its own mark that is drawn on top of the data-representative marks. Interactive...