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+# Altair
+
+<a href="https://altair-viz.github.io"><img src="https://altair-viz.github.io/_static/altair-logo-light.png" align="left" hspace="10" vspace="6" alt="Altair logo"></a>
-Altair is a declarative statistical visualization library for Python.
+**Altair** is a declarative statistical visualization library for Python. With Altair, you can spend more time understanding your data and its meaning. Altair's
+API is simple, friendly and consistent and built on top of the powerful
+[Vega-Lite](https://github.com/vega/vega-lite) JSON specification. This elegant
+simplicity produces beautiful and effective visualizations with a minimal amount of code.
*Altair is developed by [Jake Vanderplas](https://github.com/jakevdp) and [Brian
Granger](https://github.com/ellisonbg) in close collaboration with the [UW
Interactive Data Lab](http://idl.cs.washington.edu/).*
-With Altair, you can spend more time understanding your data and its meaning. Altair's
-API is simple, friendly and consistent and built on top of the powerful
-[Vega-Lite](https://github.com/vega/vega-lite) JSON specification. This elegant
-simplicity produces beautiful and effective visualizations with a minimal amount of code.
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## Altair Documentation
