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'''Vega''' is a visualization grammar, a declarative language for creating, saving, and sharing interactive visualization designs.

Vega describes a JSON schema format for its grammar, its visualizations are further described in JSON complying to that schema.

== Schema ==

Vega's JSON schema is available [https://github.com/vega/vega/blob/9ea76a6c6458289160f385970d66fd12fa2051f0/docs/vega-schema.json on GitHub] and is further annotated in the [https://vega.github.io/vega/docs/specification/ project's documentation].

== Example files ==

Example files can also be found on GitHub:

* [https://github.com/vega/vega/blob/9ea76a6c6458289160f385970d66fd12fa2051f0/docs/examples/sunburst.vg.json Sunburst Graphic].
* [https://github.com/vega/vega/blob/9ea76a6c6458289160f385970d66fd12fa2051f0/docs/examples/airport-connections.vg.json Interactive Map of US Airport Connections].
* [https://github.com/vega/vega/blob/9ea76a6c6458289160f385970d66fd12fa2051f0/docs/examples/beeswarm-plot.vg.json Beeswarm Chart].

== Links ==

* [https://vega.github.io/vega/ Vega website] including more information and examples.
* [https://github.com/vega/vega Vega Grammar on GitHub].
* [https://github.com/vega Vega Organization on GitHub].

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 * [https://github.com/vega Vega Organization on GitHub].
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