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Imagine if you have a non-linear function mapping to the height of the bars in a bar graph. For some input values, say, [0,25,50,75,100] we have a non-linear he
by spectramax 7y ago
Imagine if you have a non-linear function mapping to the height of the bars in a bar graph. For some input values, say, [0,25,50,75,100] we have a non-linear height function that calculates the heights of the bars, say [0px, 23px, 60px, 65px, 120px] - would you be ok with such a bar graph?
That's what Turbo or Jet or any of the perceptually non-linear colormaps are doing but on a chromatic scale. You are lying to your audience. It is beyond me that all this hoo haa about aesthetics, "highlighting differences" and other qualitative bullshit takes precedence over objective truthful representation of data. Sigh.
Turbo/Jet also doesn't care about colorblindness which Viridis, Inferno, Magma and Plasma does as part of the Matplotlib 2.0 spec.
- Zardoz84 7y agoI believe that I saw at the end of the article, some simulations of different colour blindness with Turbo.