Visualizing Data in dotnet with Polyglot Notebooks and SandDance

Interactive Data Visualization Alongside your dotnet Notebooks

As I’ve been doing more and more dotnet development in notebooks with Polyglot Notebooks I’ve found myself wanting more options to create rich data visualizations inside of VS Code the same way I could use Plotly for data visualization using Python and Jupyter Notebooks.

Thankfully, Microsoft SandDance exists and fills some of that gap in terms of doing rich data visualization from dotnet code.

In this article I’ll talk more about what SandDance is, show you how you can use it inside of a Polyglot Notebook in VS Code, and show you a simple way you can use it without needing a Polyglot Notebook.

What is SandDance?

SandDance is a Microsoft Research project designed to fluidly visualize data in an interactive manner. SandDance supports different visualization types and aggregating, sorting, and colorizing data points to help the user perform complex data…