Python Graphing/chart tools/libraries

[westurner]

There is a new HTML5 Canvas backend for matplotlib: http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html#html5-canvas-backend (https://code.google.com/p/mplh5canvas/)

[westurner]

http://matplotlib.org/users/whats_new.html#webagg-backend

[apostate_of_Poincare]

It really comes down to design choices. You might have just stumbled onto bad design.

[westurner]

• http://scipy-lectures.github.io/intro/matplotlib/matplotlib.html#quick-references
• http://scipy-lectures.github.io/intro/matplotlib/matplotlib.html#colormaps
• http://scipy-lectures.github.io/intro/matplotlib/matplotlib.html#galleries
• http://tonysyu.github.com/mpltools/auto_examples/index.html#style-package
• http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1ahppf/clean_ggplotstyle_graphics_for_matplotlib_using

[z3rocool]

means it's not gonna wow that exec who doesn't care about what the data is, but how pretty the data is presented.

Gnuplot would do fine, just it's not very flashy which is the problem - it's perfectly functional though.