toward web-based technologies and away from desktop graphics 'll say few more words about this in the next section the future of visualization toolsvisualizations built on web technologies (that isjavascript-basedappear to be the inevitable future doubtlessly you have used many different kinds of static or interactive visualizations built in flash or javascript over the years new toolkits (such as js and its numerous off-shoot projectsfor building such displays are appearing all the time in contrastdevelopment in non web-based visualization has slowed significantly in recent years this holds true of python as well as other data analysis and statistical computing environments like the development challengethenwill be in building tighter integration between data analysis and preparation toolssuch as pandasand the web browser am hopeful that this will become fruitful point of collaboration between python and non-python users as well python visualization tool ecosystem www it-ebooks info