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Curious about what other libraries people use. Matplotlib? Matlab?
by zerostar07 14y ago
Curious about what other libraries people use. Matplotlib? Matlab?
- NerdGGuy 14y agoI've used VTK before. The learning curve is much larger and it's a huge library. But it does have a lot of inbuilt functionality like database access with filters/conversions to format the data the way you need it.
- juanre 14y agoIn the color science community lots of people use matlab. I find matplotlib and numpy to be a great combination.
- o1iver 14y agoIn engineering we use a lot of Matlab.
- hagy 14y agoI’d strongly recommend matplotlib. It has a matlab like procedural interface that makes it very easy to pickup if you’re coming from matlab. Additionally, it’s wonderful to be able to “dive under the hood” if you need to create a special type of visualization: i.e. the internal model is easy to understand and highly customizable. This has enabled me to create several awesome plots that would have been very difficult, if not impossible to create with any other plotting program or library.
- marksbrown 14y agoI completely agree about the breadth of matplotlib, though the difficulty can be looking for examples. I've often found the examples on the matplotlib website to be horribly out of date compared to features added in recent releases. Are the plots you've done available online / Any recommended blogs for interesting examples of plotting?
- varjag 14y agoTulip is great if you deal with huge datasets that can be represented as graphs. http://tulip.labri.fr/ http://tulip.labri.fr/
- dbecker 14y agoPython is my go-to language, so I use matplotlib frequently. But I think R's ggplot2 is easily the best visualization library out there. Bokeh is supposed to be a ggplot2 clone for python, but it's still in the very early stages.
- saboot 14y agoPhysicist here.. I use CERN ROOT as it does just about everything. Occasionally I'll mix it up with python and matplotlib. GNUPlot is still great though too.