Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Michael Droettboom
These are fantastic slides. It would be great to include them in some form for a replacement for some parts of the docs that are getting a little long in the tooth. I particularly like the reference section -- we have some of that in the main docs, but not enough. I think as Nelle Varaquoax a

Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Nicolas Rougier
One idea I've been using is to show explicitly what's going on in the background when you're using defaults by instantiating all the default settings: http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/teaching/matplotlib/#using-defaults versus http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/teaching/matplotlib/#instantiating-defaul

Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Damon McDougall
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Thomas A Caswell wrote: > I think there is something to be said for not starting from pylab. > Answering questions on SO, a good chunk of them (by volume) can be > traced back to not understanding the magic that pylab is doing for you > in the background or not ev

Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas A Caswell
I think there is something to be said for not starting from pylab. Answering questions on SO, a good chunk of them (by volume) can be traced back to not understanding the magic that pylab is doing for you in the background or not even knowing magic is being done for you. Starting from pylab makes e

Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Phil Elson wrote: > >I am putting together a beginners tutorial proposal that I will submit > soon > > That's great to hear! Are you planning on making the tutorial material > part of mpl's docs or using the content that is already out there? > > > It is all new

Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Phil Elson
>I am putting together a beginners tutorial proposal that I will submit soon That's great to hear! Are you planning on making the tutorial material part of mpl's docs or using the content that is already out there? On 25 March 2013 16:16, Benjamin Root wrote: > I am putting together a beginne

Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Benjamin Root
I am putting together a beginners tutorial proposal that I will submit soon, depending on the feedback from the Guinea Pigs--- uhm, I mean, coworkers tomorrow. Ben Root -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your

Re: [matplotlib-devel] label= kwarg for imshow() and other scalarmappable plots

2013-03-25 Thread Damon McDougall
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 2:03 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > On 2013/03/24 12:14 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: >> So, for plot(), scatter() and other plotting functions, we can provide a >> label= kwarg so that a legend() can automatically populate the legend, >> making it extremely easy and convenient for ma

Re: [matplotlib-devel] SciPy 2013

2013-03-25 Thread Phil Elson
OOI Is anyone planning to run an advanced matplotlib tutorial this year? I've added a few ideas to https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/wiki/Scipy-2013 - some are more advanced than others and would need a bit of planning should we decide to run with them. On 23 March 2013 17:06, Damon McDo

Re: [matplotlib-devel] label= kwarg for imshow() and other scalarmappable plots

2013-03-25 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Eric Firing wrote: > On 2013/03/24 12:14 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > So, for plot(), scatter() and other plotting functions, we can provide a > > label= kwarg so that a legend() can automatically populate the legend, > > making it extremely easy and convenient fo

Re: [matplotlib-devel] label= kwarg for imshow() and other scalarmappable plots

2013-03-25 Thread Phil Elson
In general I like the idea, but I'm not sure what behaviour I would expect in this case: plt.imshow(z, label='foobar') plt.imshow(z, label='wibble') plt.colorbar() I suppose it is an analogous problem to: plt.imshow(z, cmap='hot') plt.imshow(z, cmap='jet') plt.colorbar() Which produces a colorb

Re: [matplotlib-devel] label= kwarg for imshow() and other scalarmappable plots

2013-03-25 Thread Eric Firing
On 2013/03/24 12:14 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > So, for plot(), scatter() and other plotting functions, we can provide a > label= kwarg so that a legend() can automatically populate the legend, > making it extremely easy and convenient for making legends. But for > image-based (scalar mappable) typ