Re: [matplotlib-devel] Faceted plotting

2013-09-02 Thread Chris Beaumont
Hi Damon, Thanks for your thoughts on how this should fit in with MPLs API. My $0.02: What would feel more natural is if I could do the following: > f = Facet(...) > ax.facet(f, 'scatter') > Three things about this style bother me: 1. It seems too verbose ("facet" gets typed a lot -- 4 times if

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Faceted plotting

2013-09-01 Thread Damon McDougall
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Chris Beaumont wrote: > Pandas has some nice tools to make faceted plots -- small multiples of > plots where data is grouped by category ( > http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/rplot.html). However, I think > there would be value in having this functionali

[matplotlib-devel] Faceted plotting

2013-08-31 Thread Chris Beaumont
Pandas has some nice tools to make faceted plots -- small multiples of plots where data is grouped by category ( http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/rplot.html). However, I think there would be value in having this functionality built into matplotlib. Mainly: 1. Not every dataset lives in