# Technical Documentation: vega/vega-lite

> ℹ️ **Provenance:** Hybrid Fusion: `vega/vega-lite` (README + 1 In-Tree Chapters) · [CodeWiki Reference](https://codewiki.google/github.com/vega/vega-lite) · Recency: Active (< 180 days)

## 1. Project Overview & Quickstart (vega/vega-lite)

# Vega-Lite [](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/)

[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/vega-lite) [](https://github.com/vega/vega-lite/actions) [](https://codecov.io/gh/vega/vega-lite) [](https://github.com/prettier/prettier) [](https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/vega-lite)



[Vega-Lite](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/) provides a higher-level grammar for visual analysis that generates complete [Vega](https://vega.github.io/) specifications.

You can find more details, [documentation](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/docs/), [examples](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/), [usage instructions](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/usage/embed.html), and [tutorials](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/tutorials/getting_started.html) on the [Vega-Lite website](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/).

Try using Vega-Lite in the online [Vega Editor](https://vega.github.io/editor/#/examples/vega-lite/bar).

Contributions are also welcome. Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for contribution and development guidelines and our [Code of Conduct](https://vega.github.io/vega/about/code-of-conduct/).

Read about future plans in [our roadmap](https://github.com/vega/roadmap/projects/).

## Team

The development of Vega-Lite is led by the alumni and members of the [University of Washington Interactive Data Lab](https://idl.cs.washington.edu) (UW IDL), including [Kanit "Ham" Wongsuphasawat](https://kanitw.github.io) (now at Databricks), [Dominik Moritz](https://bsky.app/profile/domoritz.de) (now at CMU / Apple), [Arvind Satyanarayan](https://bsky.app/profile/arvind.bsky.social) (now at MIT), and [Jeffrey Heer](https://bsky.app/profile/jheer.org) (UW IDL).

Vega-Lite gets significant contributions from its community. Please see the [contributors page](https://github.com/vega/vega-lite/graphs/contributors) for the full list of contributors.

## Citing Vega-Lite

```bib
@article{2017-vega-lite,
  doi = {10.1109/tvcg.2016.2599030},
  year = {2017},
  author = {Arvind Satyanarayan and Dominik Moritz and Kanit Wongsuphasawat and Jeffrey Heer},
  title = {Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics},
  journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Visualization \& Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis)},
  url = {http://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/vega-lite},
}
```

## 2. In-Tree Documentation Chapters (vega/vega-lite)

# Vega-Lite [](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/)

[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/vega-lite) [](https://github.com/vega/vega-lite/actions) [](https://codecov.io/gh/vega/vega-lite) [](https://github.com/prettier/prettier) [](https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/vega-lite)



[Vega-Lite](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/) provides a higher-level grammar for visual analysis that generates complete [Vega](https://vega.github.io/) specifications.

You can find more details, [documentation](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/docs/), [examples](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/examples/), [usage instructions](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/usage/embed.html), and [tutorials](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/tutorials/getting_started.html) on the [Vega-Lite website](https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/).

Try using Vega-Lite in the online [Vega Editor](https://vega.github.io/editor/#/examples/vega-lite/bar).

Contributions are also welcome. Please see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) for contribution and development guidelines and our [Code of Conduct](https://vega.github.io/vega/about/code-of-conduct/).

Read about future plans in [our roadmap](https://github.com/vega/roadmap/projects/).

## Team

The development of Vega-Lite is led by the alumni and members of the [University of Washington Interactive Data Lab](https://idl.cs.washington.edu) (UW IDL), including [Kanit "Ham" Wongsuphasawat](https://kanitw.github.io) (now at Databricks), [Dominik Moritz](https://bsky.app/profile/domoritz.de) (now at CMU / Apple), [Arvind Satyanarayan](https://bsky.app/profile/arvind.bsky.social) (now at MIT), and [Jeffrey Heer](https://bsky.app/profile/jheer.org) (UW IDL).

Vega-Lite gets significant contributions from its community. Please see the [contributors page](https://github.com/vega/vega-lite/graphs/contributors) for the full list of contributors.

## Citing Vega-Lite

```bib
@article{2017-vega-lite,
  doi = {10.1109/tvcg.2016.2599030},
  year = {2017},
  author = {Arvind Satyanarayan and Dominik Moritz and Kanit Wongsuphasawat and Jeffrey Heer},
  title = {Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics},
  journal = {{IEEE} Transactions on Visualization \& Computer Graphics (Proc. InfoVis)},
  url = {http://idl.cs.washington.edu/papers/vega-lite},
}
```

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