HoloViews
High-level plotting API for declarative data visualization in PyData ecosystem.
Charts and data visualisation PyPI BSD-3-Clause
How HoloViews is used
HoloViews is a dependency in 0 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 53 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Plotly (57 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Beautiful Soup (100.0%), Matplotlib (100.0%), Bokeh (98.1%).
HoloViews popularity over time
Gid Score 40: downloads 49, use in agent projects 42, GitHub stars 29, downloads trend 38 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with HoloViews
| Beautiful Soup | 100.0% of HoloViews projects · 46.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Matplotlib | 100.0% of HoloViews projects · 37.2× more than average |
| Bokeh | 98.1% of HoloViews projects · 2030.3× more than average |
| Flask | 98.1% of HoloViews projects · 56.9× more than average |
| h5py | 98.1% of HoloViews projects · 468.5× more than average |
| imageio | 98.1% of HoloViews projects · 1015.1× more than average |
| itsdangerous | 98.1% of HoloViews projects · 225.6× more than average |
From all 53 projects in our scan that use HoloViews, including the dependency samples.
How HoloViews is funded
Open Collective: HoloViz
| Received, last 12 months | $259 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $259 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $517 |
| Raised since the start | $1,281 · $764 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $0 · $0 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +4217% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| NumFOCUS | $1,017 since Jun 2023 |
|---|---|
| THANKS.DEV | $259 since May 2026 |
Jun 2023Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Jun 2023. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 5 more tools in our catalog: Panel, Param, Colorcet, Datashader, hvPlot.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host NumFOCUS. Source
Ways to fund HoloViews
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install holoviews |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (53) |
| Example projects | tomerwolgithub/question-decomposition-to-sql, AI-Learning-Gems/AI-Learning-Gems.github.io, m-abbas-ansari/SuperResolution-DEMs, Zhou-CyberSecurity-AI/ATBA |
Alternatives to HoloViews
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside HoloViews are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plotly pypi Interactive data visualization library for Python with rich chart and dashboard support. |
72 | 57 (3.5%) | 13.3M | 18.8K | MIT |
| Altair pypi Declarative statistical visualization library for Python using Vega-Lite. |
67 | 7 (0.4%) | 9.7M | 10.5K | BSD |
| Bokeh pypi Create interactive plots and applications in the browser from Python code. |
60 | 3 (0.2%) | 1.5M | 20.5K | BSD-3-Clause |
| plotnine pypi Grammar of Graphics implementation for Python inspired by ggplot2. |
48 | 2 (0.1%) | 593K | 4,774 | MIT |
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