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> It’s too bad you were down-voted. Your skepticism is pretty reasonable. It would be if all of the concerns were not actually addressed in the article. Nobody
by yoz-y 7y ago
> It’s too bad you were down-voted. Your skepticism is pretty reasonable.
It would be if all of the concerns were not actually addressed in the article. Nobody is taking inferno away from you, different scales are useful for different usages. Having an additional color dimension makes it easier to see gradients at a glance.
- spectramax 7y agoIt’s not about whether someone is taking away Inferno or Viridis. It’s about what is effectively lying to your audience and what is accurate perceptually linear representation of the data - the latter triumphs over any aesthetic considerations. There are 4 different color maps from matplotlib 2.0 - you could use a different one if you don’t like the aesthetics. If this article had come up with an original improvement to Viridis, I’d be praising it. Also, Turbo doesn’t give a fuck about colorblind considerations whereas Inferno and Viridis does.
- yoz-y 7y ago> lying to your audience I am pretty sure the scale should be always put somewhere next to the heat map so the audience can make their own judgement. A rainbow colormap gives you more depth than a single or dual hue one, I think that both have their merit depending on the data to visualize. > Also, Turbo doesn’t give a fuck about colorblind considerations whereas Inferno and Viridis does. There is a whole section of the article dedicated to that.