I have spent years dodging PowerPoint, with limited success. Whether it was me who was expected to deliver the presentation, or people imploring me to automate the creation of their slide decks, I dreaded few things more. What really pissed me off was the feeling that it really didn't need to be this hard...
Our reporting stack is built atop over 15k lines of BigQuery SQL that I have been trying to tame. Having made good use of Python formatters and linters like Black and Flake8, I wanted a linter that could help me clean up the code and also potentially be integrated with pre-commit and GitHub Actions.
It's the 14th of February so rather than buying any useless stuff I don't need for a fake holiday, I thought I'd play with a charting library.