[HN Gopher] Show HN: MPL Plotter - Python library to make techni...
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Show HN: MPL Plotter - Python library to make technical plots more
efficiently
Author : antonlopezr
Score : 22 points
Date : 2021-05-14 08:14 UTC (14 hours ago)
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| mkl wrote:
| This looks interesting. I noticed that quite a few of the 2D
| plots in the documentation are supposed to have a square aspect
| ratio but don't. You could fix this by making the default plot
| shape square, or by putting aspect=1 in lots of places.
| antonlopezr wrote:
| I used to loose quite a bit of time making technical plots with
| Matplotlib, and set out to remove that overhead from my
| university projects. I got to learn some Python along the way,
| and this is the result!
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| It saves me quite some time, so I guessed I might as well share
| it :)
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| All feedback is welcome! It's my first library so there's quite a
| lot of room to grow. Thanks in advance for checking it out!
| alexmcc81 wrote:
| I'll definitely check this out. Two questions:
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| 1. How does it compare to seaborne?
| (https://seaborn.pydata.org/)
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| 2. Any tips for plotting large amounts of data with matplotlib?
| fundamental wrote:
| It seems like seaborn would be a step backwards if you're
| looking for fast plotting. Perhaps I got the wrong
| impression, but this month I spent some time helping a
| coworker migrate to plain matplotlib as the seaborn plots
| were taking minutes to process while my matplotlib based code
| took half a second.
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