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Short answer: because none of them is the default in standard plotting tool. There is so many alternative that it is hard to know which replacement you should
by petschge 5y ago
Short answer: because none of them is the default in standard plotting tool.
There is so many alternative that it is hard to know which replacement you should pick. If you pick the wrong one you are a moron, if you stick with the bad default it's way less noticeable, even if it is a strictly worse choice.
- murphyslab 5y agoThe default issue is certainly keenly felt. My first scientific publication graphs were done with Jet. But since switching to some of the perceptually uniform ones (most often Viridis), I've never had a complaint. But your point "if you stick with the bad it's way less noticeable" is understandable.
- maxnoe 5y agoMatplotlib 2.0 came out in January 2017 and has a perceptually uniform, colorblond friendly colormap as default and three others available. There is no exclude for using Jet today and Journals should reject papers using bad colormaps