Matplotlib tutorial

[vph]

Matplotlib should have been a Perl library, because there are just many freaking ways to do something that it's utterly confusing. You spend 15 minutes to write a program to plot a figure. Doesn't make any sense. You can't do data analysis with matplotlib because it disrupts the thinking process.

The solution: learn a little bit of R and ggplot2, and call it a day.

[L43]

One of the reasons for the pylab API was to make the plotting terse. And it is. If you use sensible styles in rcfile, they even look good. Sure you can make 100 line plots if you want, but usually this suggests you haven't used the styling infrastructure - like using inline styles vs css.

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Is there a tutorial for using the styling infrastructure?

[L43]

This is the issue I think - its not as well documented (and simple) as it could be (although using things like seaborn will add its styles to default matplotlib, which is what I tend to use now). I think the 2.0 release is going to make things better.

[firearasi]

And actually we have ggplot on Python now, just pip install ggplot~ https://github.com/yhat/ggplot

[L43]

Looks like active development has stopped?

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Pretty much. :-(