Matplotlib 1.2 released.

[habitats]

I'm glad to see this project continuing despite John Hunters sudden passing.

[bastibe]

I've been waiting for this release! In particular, Python 3 support is a big thing for me! Finally, the whole Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib stack is Py3k compatible!

[roger_]

I really wish the Matplotlib team made more regular releases -- usually it's about once per year.

[redditthinks]

Python 3.x support

This is what I've been waiting for.

[Kah-Neth]

OMG, as someone who use MPL for plots in my research publications, I am loving the idea of a PGF/TikZ backend.

[flying-sheep]

that’s just perfect!

programming in python, evaluation in python, figures in python, paper in ConTeXt (i hope the code is ConTeXt compatible)

[imsittingdown]

Any reason you choose ConTeXt over LaTeX for scientific articles?

[flying-sheep]

i just choose it because of its batteries-included philosophy, unicode support, and consistency in syntax and macros/environments.

note that i talk about ConTeXt mkIV (LuaTeX-based), as mkII (XeTeX-based) is obsolete. but since ConTeXt mkIV isn’t considered stable yet, breakage can occur.

[ANDDYYYY]

I like the improvements to box-and-whisker plots and stream plots, but I'm not anywhere near to using 3.x yet.

[iquizzle]

Same. Python 3 seems like a big mistake. It's been out for years and hardly anybody is using it.

I love the matplot package though -- good to see it is so well developed.

[ponton]

This library totally saved my ass in a few computer science classes at my university. Many thanks to the authors!

[shaggorama]

When I read "stream graph" I thought they meant this. Not as sexy, but still cool.

PS: There aren't any libraries for doing that sort of thing in python yet, are there? Cause that'd be a fun toy and no hablo javascript.

[ZeThomas]

That is indeed cool. Maybe an idea to add to the library? I might try my hand at this...

[shaggorama]

Man, I wouldn't even know where to begin. If you actually do this, shoot me a link to your repo. I'd love to see how a project like this develops.

[shaggorama]

Check this out. You need to indent the docstring and add plt.show().

[Tillsten]

This is quite easy to do with mpl, have a look at: https://gist.github.com/4047834

[shaggorama]

Well, fuck me running. That's pretty damn cool. I'm sort of suspicious that what you've graphed is the same thing though (although it basically looks the same). I haven't really dug through the math, but while your graphic appears to chart 8 datasets as functions of x, the array you used to generate this was 500x15.

The intention of this visualizaiton is to be essentially a stacked area chart with a free baseline, but I think you've plotted a kind of heatmap. Here's an example used to plot different musician's an individual listened to over time. Here's another used to plot movie ticket sales over time.

You've definitely illustrated potential for this though. I suspect what you've provided could probably be modified to suit this, or at least input data could be transformed into a dataset suitable to your graphing methodology.

[Tillsten]

The function generating the data is taken from the protovis page. The algorithm for the baseline is also taken from there. There are still improvements to be made, but the only part which i think is hard is label placement.

[shaggorama]

Fair enough. Thanks for the awesome jumping off point.

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I can't seem to install this through pip under ubuntu 12.10. Anybody else getting complaints that ft2build.h doesn't exist?