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I agree – it's interesting how one is initially drawn to, yet eventually tires of these sorts of plot styles. While Seaborn strikes a good balance, clear and si
by bede 9y ago
I agree – it's interesting how one is initially drawn to, yet eventually tires of these sorts of plot styles. While Seaborn strikes a good balance, clear and simple monochrome plots never go out of fashion. This is just as much the case when building fancy interactive plots using Shiny/Plotly etc.
- abhirag 9y agoInteresting, @bede @v3gas I would love to hear your thoughts on my plots -- http://abhirag.in/articles/price_data_present.html http://abhirag.in/articles/price_data_present.html Too fancy? Too plain? Kinda ok? Kinda new to matplotlib, so your feedback would help :)
- stadeschuldt 9y agoI like them. :)
- abhirag 9y agoThanks :)
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoThe plots are pretty nice. The serif font for the axes captions and the monospaced font for the axis labels are jarring.
- abhirag 9y agoWould you prefer I use serif for both or sans serif for both?
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoSans-serif for both captions and labels. The serif font that is there right now is looking kinda out of place. Also the {braces} around the captions. Finally, the labels in the legend do not need to be all italicized.
- nekopa 9y agoNice charts. Just one idea, on your vegetable chart, you have onions as a red line and tomatoes as yellow. I would swap them around, as I automatically associate tomatoes with red.
- abhirag 9y agoValid point :) I'll change the order of colors in my palette.
- v3gas 9y agoI think they're nice! I like the monospaced font for the axes. Fwiw, I would remove the legend in the case of there being only one curve, especially since you have good titles.
- abhirag 9y agoThanks, I'll fix that, I was so engrossed in making sure that legends are in the right place that I totally overlooked the fact that they are redundant for single curve plots.
- analog31 9y agoIt would be interesting to see a built-in plotting style that doesn't give patent lawyers the fits. The patent office still requires monochrome plots.
- gh02t 9y agoMonochrome is problematic for plots with multiple series though, because people's eyes aren't good at distinguishing shades of gray. You can use dashed lines for stuff like line plots, but those don't work well for complex trends and you can only use one or two. I think monochrome is great for some uses, but at least for the area I work in the majority of figures use color. I'd say the main reason to use monochrome is for print, but most scientific journals are online nowadays and even conference proceedings are handed out in color. Now that doesn't mean everybody uses color well but that's a different discussion...