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Knowing other languages is great, but there is very real overhead in learning them. Python is mature enough that you have mature libraries available for pretty much everything.

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believe it or not, there are some people who know R and face overhead to learn Python. and they love ggplot2.

and frankly, Python has no libraries for interactive visualization in your browser because only JavaScript runs there.

etc.

http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/

"Bokeh is a Python interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation."

(Of course, it works by generating JavaScript)

right, and in order to really customize what bokeh does you need to write JS in strings in your python code, so this just proves my point.

http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/user_guide/interactio... see the CustomJS function.

No you don't. It now does python to JS compilation. And that's if you want client side callbacks.

Python has no libraries for interactive visualization in your browser because only JavaScript runs there

Isn't that like saying that C has no visualization libraries on Intel processors because only assembly runs there?

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