[HN Gopher] An open access book on scientific visualization usin...
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An open access book on scientific visualization using Python and
Matplotlib
Author : sebg
Score : 185 points
Date : 2021-11-15 16:17 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| newtwilly wrote:
| Anyone have experience with both MatPlotLib and Vega / Vega-lite?
| I like working in Clojure and am just about to do a bunch of
| data-viz.
|
| I've only done a simple line chart so far, and I used this oz
| library for interfacing with Clojure and displaying results in
| the browser. [1]
|
| One of the problems was lack of error messages. Not sure what
| part of the tooling was failing me there.
|
| [1]. https://github.com/metasoarous/oz
| gimagon wrote:
| I can't speak to oz's error messages, but for the vega-lite +
| python integration, I've found altair pretty usable. In
| particular, simple scatter plots with tooltips were easy to get
| up and running.
|
| https://altair-viz.github.io/
|
| https://altair-viz.github.io/gallery/scatter_tooltips.html?h...
| RyEgswuCsn wrote:
| Both the book and the organisation of the sources for the book
| are very impressive. Thanks for the marvellous work!
| oolonthegreat wrote:
| looks very nice and thorough! can't wait to have some free time
| in my hands to dive into it, thanks for the work.
| joelbondurant wrote:
| All pre-science must be registered with the Science Ministry to
| be ordained Fact-Check within 90 days or drone strikes will melt
| your mother's tombstone.
| pmdulaney wrote:
| This is beautiful!
| abetusk wrote:
| This book is distributed under a non commercial license (CC-BY-
| NC-SA 4.0) [0].
|
| While I understand that language is evolving and that only under
| a "strict definition" of open access does it mean removing
| barriers to copying and reuse [1], it's seems pretty duplicitous
| to say it's "open" while putting it under a non-commercial
| license.
|
| [0] https://github.com/rougier/scientific-visualization-
| book/blo...
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| [1]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Open_access&oldid...
| marmaduke wrote:
| Maybe you could explain why a non commercial license would not
| be open, for anyone not looking to turn a profit off of the
| author's work?
| jjnoakes wrote:
| To expand upon this a little, it's worth noting that the book
| and the code are licensed separately and differently.
| rougier wrote:
| Yes, code is BSD licensed.
| mindcrime wrote:
| _it 's seems pretty duplicitous to say it's "open" while
| putting it under a non-commercial license._
|
| I can't really agree with that. For _open source_ , yes, the
| OSD does make it clear that the definition does not permit
| licenses that prevent commercial resale. But "open access" for
| scientific works, or just technical documentation in general,
| does not seem - in vernacular use - to entail such a strict
| requirement.
|
| Of course as an advocate of "free culture" in the most general
| sense, I might say I would _prefer_ a book, paper, article,
| etc. to be published under something less restrictive. But I
| see nothing "duplicitious"[1] about this particular usage.
|
| Consider that the corresponding Wikipedia entry on Open
| Access[2] contains this blurb, which supports the idea that
| both "gratis open access" and "libre open access" would be
| considered sub-types of the more general idea of "open access."
|
| _Similar to the free content definition, the terms 'gratis'
| and 'libre' were used in the BOAI definition to distinguish
| between free to read versus free to reuse.[38] Gratis open
| access (Free to read) refers to online access free of charge,
| and libre open access (open access) refers to online access
| free of charge plus some additional re-use rights_
|
| [1]: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/duplicitous
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| [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
| rougier wrote:
| The NC part was mostly to avoid having someone to sell the book
| on some platform without my knowledge.
| [deleted]
| jointpdf wrote:
| This person is prolific and has a ton of great tutorials, free
| books, and more in their repo (I like the numpy book:
| https://www.labri.fr/perso/nrougier/from-python-to-numpy/). Major
| thanks to the author for sharing all this knowledge.
| rougier wrote:
| Thanks!
| belter wrote:
| Thank you for this:
|
| https://rougier.github.io/python-visualization-
| landscape/lan...
|
| and your other interesting projects.
| mistermann wrote:
| Does anyone know of a site where people submit visualizations,
| where one might find these tools pushed to the extremes of what
| they can do in novel ways?
| wswope wrote:
| Apologies if it's not what you had in mind, but the examples in
| the MPL docs are exceptionally thorough when it comes to
| showing off advanced features (though they can be quite hard to
| parse).
|
| https://matplotlib.org/stable/gallery/index.html
| nefitty wrote:
| My friend, if you have not heard of it already, I am proud to
| introduce you to the magic that is Observable:
| https://observablehq.com/collection/@observablehq/visualizat...
|
| I'm a full stack web dev, not a data scientist, but Observable
| has dramatically changed my relationship to code. The last time
| I felt this excited by programming was about 20 years ago when
| I was in middle school and discovered Game Maker's scripting
| language...
| DataCrayon wrote:
| some examples on https://plotapi.com/gallery/ and
| https://datacrayon.com
| webmaven wrote:
| Perhaps the Information is Beautiful site?:
| https://informationisbeautiful.net
|
| There is also the Data is Beautiful reddit:
| https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/
| mindcrime wrote:
| Perhaps also
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/dataviz/
| earthscienceman wrote:
| Does anyone know if M. Rougier has posted his emacs config for
| python? I'm heavy on the emacs/python/science and I'm curious if
| he uses any of the more extensive packages, like elpy.
| rougier wrote:
| I'm using default python mode actually (no elpy, no lsp) and
| emacs python configuration is maybe 3 or 4 lines.
| andersource wrote:
| This is the most visually aesthetic book I've ever seen, and
| seems to be amazingly thorough in material. Thanks for this!
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