Add resource section in the documentation

[joelostblom]

What do you think about adding a section in the docs with links to and short descriptions of learning resources and packages related to / building on Altair?

I went through all Github repos mentioning Altair that was updated since Aug 2020 and labeled as either a Python and Notebook repo. From that search, the resource section could look something like this:

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Resources

Learning material

• Jupyter Notebooks tutorials and examples
• A data visualization curriculum from the UW data group
• Altair tutorial given at PyCon 2018

Related packages

• Vega-Lite - The higher-level visualization grammar that Altair implements in Python
• altair_saver - Enables saving charts to a variety of output types
• altair_data_server - Data transformer plugin that transparently serves data for charts
• altair_pandas - Altair backend for the pandas plotting API
• vega_datasets - Offline access to the Vega datasets used in the Altair documentation
• nx_altair - Draw interactive NetworkX graphs with Altair
• gif - Create animated Altair gifs via loops
• Vegawidget - R interface to Altair

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For full disclosure, I am working on a data visualization course using Altair at the University of British Columbia and a wrapper package for making a few EDA plots quicker with Altair. When they are further along, I will suggest adding them here, but also happy if this stays as is and just makes the info easier to find.

[joelostblom]

It could be nice with some elaboration on the learning resources, I remember it being difficult to figure out what to read when I started learning Altair. In the end I mostly used the documentation and the UW data curriculum which I think made for a great combo, but I'm not familiar with the other two I linked above.

I just built a Jupyter Book for the UW data visualization and I would be happy to build one for the altair_notebooks repo as well, but I saw altair-viz/altair_notebooks#23, so maybe I should wait until the material is brought up to date?

[jakevdp]

That's a great idea! Are you interested in opening a PR?