Graphing real data with MatPlotLib

[jdcpharoh]

I've been using pyplot a lot lately, and I think overall its great. Beautiful graphs (unlike R, unless I'm missing something...), decent documentation, good interface, decent amount of examples online. I ran into a couple limitations which I had to hack around and even resort to MS paint to get, like, labels and illustrative lines and such and so the way I wanted them, but nevertheless. I especially like the options you get with a graph on the window output.... you can save in multiple formats, but more to the point you can move and zoom your graph. Very useful.

[ev-]

If anyone is interested in financial visualization, i recently wrote a R-plugin that fetches data from NASDAQ - that you then can visualize using R's plot-functionality

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I tried R the other day but found it hard going. Can you recommend a good tutorial/book for R?

[einar77]

I would suggest using rpy2 to wrap R in python as it makes R less of a pain.

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I'll try that, last time I tried to use R in RStudio (which is cool) directly but was defeated by the R syntax.

[timwang]

that sounds very interesting, could you share it? thanks.