Re: [matplotlib-devel] is R wrong? (boxplot)

2014-02-16 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014, Thomas A Caswell wrote: > As a side note, adding jitter has been discussed before > (https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/2750) in a slightly > different context and the consensus was to _not_ add it to mpl (as it > is a non-deterministic data transformation). inter

Re: [matplotlib-devel] is R wrong? (boxplot)

2014-02-15 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
On Sat, 15 Feb 2014, Paul Hobson wrote: >Those figures look great. Seaborn has some similar functionality (scroll >down a bit): > > [1]http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/mwaskom/seaborn/blob/master/examples/plotting_distributions.ipynb#Comparing-distributions:-boxplot-and-violinplot r

Re: [matplotlib-devel] is R wrong? (boxplot)

2014-02-15 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Hi Paul, On Sat, 15 Feb 2014, Paul Hobson wrote: >As the author of the fix and the recent overhaul to boxplots Thanks for that! > I can say with certainty that R is wrong! ;-) phew -- thanks ;) >More seriously, the main thing that I take away from Tukey's paper about >boxplots, is

[matplotlib-devel] is R wrong? (boxplot)

2014-02-15 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Dear Matplotlib gurus, Following the code to demonstrate recent(ish) fix for whiskers in boxplots: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1855 I have compared it against R's boxplot. Description seems to correspond, and all the percentiles are the same in numpy and R (3.0.1) but R's boxplo

Re: [matplotlib-devel] RFC: boxplot_enhanced & paired_stats

2012-11-17 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
Thanks everyone for the feedback. yeah -- scipy dependency is just a joke, as I said, since only sem is in use, so would be trivial to 'fix'. As for where to contribute unless to matplotlib -- I would have just sticked it in our own PyMVPA ;) but I think those would be generally useful, so I wil

[matplotlib-devel] RFC: boxplot_enhanced & paired_stats

2012-11-16 Thread Yaroslav Halchenko
-mode; py-indent-offset: 4; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil -*- #ex: set sts=4 ts=4 sw=4 noet: #- =+- Python script -+= - """ @file paired-plots.py @date Fri Jan 13 11:48:00 2012 @brief Yar