Hi, I'm Jon Mease
I care deeply about the future of the open data science technology ecosystem, I’m a contributor to a variety of open source visualization and data science projects, and I'm the creator of VegaFusion.
I hold a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, and Bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Millersville University.
For more information on my background, see my CV.
Featured Projects
I created VlConvert, which converts Vega-Lite specifications to Vega, SVG, and PNG. VlConvert was made the default static image export engine in Altair 5.
I created VegaFusion, which provides serverside acceleration of the Vega visualization grammar.
I integrated RAPIDS technologies into the Datashader Python library to enable GPU acceleration.
I developed the Plotly parallel categories (parcats) trace. This is an interactive chart type for visualizing multidimensional categorical datasets.
Featured Blog Posts
- Announcing VegaFusion 1.0 2023-01
- Introducing VlConvert 2022-10
- Announcing VegaFusion 2022-01
- Introducing Dash HoloViews 2020-12
- Bringing GPU support to Datashader: A RAPIDS case study 2020-02
Featured Talks
- Scaling Altair visualizations with VegaFusion PyData Seattle 2023 – 2023-04
- Scalable Analytic Dashboards in Python with Dask Distributed and Dash Dask Distributed Summit – 2021-05
- Bringing GPU support to Datashader: A RAPIDS case study SciPy – 2020-07
- Bringing ipywidgets Support to plotly.py SciPy – 2018-07