Simple Scatter Plot with Tooltips

A scatter plot of the cars dataset, with tooltips showing selected column values when you hover over points. We make the points larger so that it is easier to hover over them.

Method syntax

import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data

source = data.cars()

alt.Chart(source).mark_circle(size=60).encode(
    x='Horsepower',
    y='Miles_per_Gallon',
    color='Origin',
    tooltip=['Name', 'Origin', 'Horsepower', 'Miles_per_Gallon']
).interactive()

Attribute syntax

import altair as alt
from vega_datasets import data

source = data.cars()

alt.Chart(source).mark_circle(size=60).encode(
    x='Horsepower',
    y='Miles_per_Gallon',
    color='Origin',
    tooltip=['Name', 'Origin', 'Horsepower', 'Miles_per_Gallon']
).interactive()
# No channel encoding options are specified in this chart
# so the code is the same as for the method-based syntax.