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Data Science Project Style Guide
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Learning Curves for Machine Learning (hands-on)
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mircealex
9y ago
Agree, the default style looks much better in 2.x. It's good enough for most use cases, but it's still quite far from publication level, IMO.
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mircealex
9y ago
Apologies, I only examined the first couple of graphs after the first "FiveThirtyEight" keyword, for which you don't have titles, subtitles etc. The graphs on your article look really nice, but they are quite far from resembl
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9y ago
You're not adding a title, a subtitle, a signature bar. You're not bolding the line at y = 0, you're using block-style legends instead of adding customized labels. All these will require extra code. Your example is potentiall
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9y ago
Simply because we're interested to see if we can do in Python whatever we can do in other programming languages / software. We don't really want to learn a new programming language for every thing we can't do in Python y
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It really depends on why you're generating the graphs for. If you needed a visualization for a storytelling article, I really doubt you'd prefer matplotlib's bland standard style. If you just want to visualize some data fast
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How to Generate FiveThirtyEight Graphs in Python
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