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"matplotlib seems a good contender to me' I've waxed lyrical about Python all over this thread, but here you have to give the medal to R. Matplotlib is one of
by sweezyjeezy 11y ago
"matplotlib seems a good contender to me'
I've waxed lyrical about Python all over this thread, but here you have to give the medal to R. Matplotlib is one of my least favourite libraries to use, been doing it for almost 2 years, and I still spend half my time buried in the documentation trying to figure out how I'm supposed to move the legend slightly to the right or whatever.
ggplot probably has slightly less flexibility overall (mpl is monolithic), but for just doing easy things that you need 99% of the time, ggplot is king.
- nicolapede 11y agoI must give you that after few years of using it, I still have to look for documentation for elementary things. I am not familiar with ggplot, so I wasn't comparing them on the ground of the easiness of use, but by looking at some ggplot examples, they looked like something you can do with matplotlib, too, so I pointed that option out, too.
- nrpprn 11y agoThere is a gpplot clone in python. Also bokeh is starting to develop a grammar of graphics interface. Then there is seaborn and mbplot. Lots of stuff besides mplotlib
- misiti3780 11y agoi couldnt agree more - the API seems very confusing and the examples provided are shitty in my opinion