Hello Michael, thanks for replying. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 16:35, Michael V. DePalatis <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Sandro Tosi <[email protected]> wrote: >> I received the interesting proposal to author a book on Matplotlib, >> the powerful 2D plotting library for Python. >> >> While preparing the arguments list, I'd like to hear even your >> opinion, because different points-of-view will lead to a better >> product. >> >> Some basic question I'd like to ask are: >> ... > > I've been thinking about this for a couple of days, and I would like > to see a large section or chapter devoted to curve fitting. This is of > course more strictly a scipy concern rather than matplotlib itself, > but I feel that fitting data is a little bit harder than it should be, > partially due to lack of good and thorough documentation and examples. > (Furthermore I think the way to do it is a little bit awkward, but > that's another issue entirely. It is for this reason and others that I > usually prefer using gnuplot for fitting.)
Well, this is not a science book, but an introduction to mpl one. I have a chapter dedicate to "Matplotlib and Science" maybe I can add something there. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
