Vega Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics - Wongsuphasawat, Moritz, and Satyanarayan

Kanit Wongsuphasawat, Dominik Moritz and Arvind Satyanarayan present Vega-Lite, a high-level grammar for building interactive graphics. Charts and their interactions are described as compact declarative specifications that compile down to the lower-level Vega.

HN people submit it as the authors' own explanation of the grammar behind Vega-Lite.