Improve readme (#3033)

Author: mattijn

README.md

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 # Vega-Altair <a href="https://altair-viz.github.io/"><img align="right" src="https://altair-viz.github.io/_static/altair-logo-light.png" height="50"></img></a>
 
-*The Vega-Altair open source project is not affiliated with Altair Engineering, Inc.*
 
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 **Vega-Altair** is a declarative statistical visualization library for Python. With Vega-Altair, you can spend more time understanding your data and its meaning. Vega-Altair's
 API is simple, friendly and consistent and built on top of the powerful
 [Vega-Lite](https://github.com/vega/vega-lite) JSON specification. This elegant
-simplicity produces beautiful and effective visualizations with a minimal amount of code. *Vega-Altair was originally developed by [Jake Vanderplas](https://github.com/jakevdp) and [Brian
+simplicity produces beautiful and effective visualizations with a minimal amount of code. 
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+*Vega-Altair was originally developed by [Jake Vanderplas](https://github.com/jakevdp) and [Brian
 Granger](https://github.com/ellisonbg) in close collaboration with the [UW
 Interactive Data Lab](https://idl.cs.washington.edu/).*
+*The Vega-Altair open source project is not affiliated with Altair Engineering, Inc.*
 
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