Awesome
Announcement
Thank you to everyone who has used prettyplotlib and made it what it is today! Unfortunately, I no longer have the bandwidth to maintain prettyplotlib. I recommend using seaborn. Using seaborn, to get the prettyplotlib style, do:
import seaborn as sns
sns.set(style='ticks', palette='Set2')
And to remove "chartjunk", do:
sns.despine()
If you have discrete pull requests, I will accept them, but I personally will no longer fix bugs.
If you are a biological scientist looking for ways to analyze your big-ish (20+ samples) data, check out my main project, flotilla.
prettyplotlib
Python matplotlib-enhancer library which painlessly creates beautiful default matplotlib
plots. Inspired by Edward Tufte's work on information design and Cynthia Brewer's work on color perception.
I truly believe that scientific progress is impeded when improper data visualizations are used. I spent a lot of time tweaking my figures to make them more understandable, and realized the scientific world could be a better place if the default parameters for plotting libraries followed recent advances in information design research. And thus prettyplotlib was born.
Requirements:
matplotlib. Can be installed viapip install matplotliboreasy_install matplotlibbrewer2mpl. Can be installed viapip install brewer2mploreasy_install brewer2mpl
Comparison to matplotlib
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<td><code>matplotlib</code> default <code>plot</code><br><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/plot_matplotlib_default.png" height="202"></td>
<td><code>prettyplotlib</code> default <code>plot</code><br><a href=https://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/wiki/Examples-with-code#plot-lines-eg-time-series-with-a-legend"><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/plot_prettyplotlib_default.png" height="202"></a></td>
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<td><code>matplotlib</code> default <code>scatter</code><br><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/scatter_matplotlib_default.png" height="202"></td>
<td><code>prettyplotlib</code> default <code>scatter</code><br><a href="https://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/wiki/Examples-with-code#scatter-points"><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/scatter_prettyplotlib_default.png" height="202"></a></td>
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<td><code>matplotlib</code> default <code>bar</code><br><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/bar_matplotlib_default.png" height="202"></td>
<td><code>prettyplotlib</code> default <code>bar</code><br><a href=https://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/wiki/Examples-with-code#bar><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/bar_prettyplotlib_default.png" height="202"></a></td>
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<td><code>matplotlib</code> default <code>hist</code><br><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/hist_matplotlib_default.png" height="202"></td>
<td><code>prettyplotlib</code> default <code>hist</code><br><a href="https://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/wiki/Examples-with-code#hist"><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/hist_prettyplotlib_default.png" height="202"></a></td>
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<td><code>matplotlib</code> default <code>hist</code><br>with grid<br><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/hist_matplotlib_grid.png" height="202"></td>
<td><code>prettyplotlib</code> default <code>hist</code><br>with grid<br><a href="https://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/wiki/Examples-with-code#back-to-matplotlib-style-scatterplots"><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/hist_prettyplotlib_grid.png" height="202"></a></td>
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<td><code>matplotlib</code> default <code>boxplot</code><br><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/boxplot_matplotlib_default.png" height="202"></td>
<td><code>prettyplotlib</code> default <code>boxplot</code><br><a href="https://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/wiki/Examples-with-code#boxplot"><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/boxplot_prettyplotlib_default.png" height="202"></a></td>
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<td><code>matplotlib</code> default <code>pcolormesh</code><br>positive and negative data<br><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/pcolormesh_matplotlib_default.png" height="202"></td>
<td><code>prettyplotlib</code> default <code>pcolormesh</code><br>positive and negative data<br><a href="https://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/wiki/Examples-with-code#pcolormesh-heatmaps"><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/pcolormesh_prettyplotlib_default.png" height="202"></a></td>
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<td><code>matplotlib</code> default <code>pcolormesh</code><br>positive data only<br><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/pcolormesh_matplotlib_positive_default.png" height="202"></td>
<td><code>prettyplotlib</code> default <code>pcolormesh</code><br>positive data only<br><a href="https://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/wiki/Examples-with-code#pcolormesh-positive-only-data"><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/pcolormesh_prettyplotlib_positive.png" height="202"></a></td>
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<td><code>matplotlib pcolormesh</code><br> negative-valued data with labels<br><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/pcolormesh_matplotlib_negative_labels.png" height="202"></td>
<td><code>prettyplotlib pcolormesh</code><br> negative-valued data with labels<br><a href="https://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/wiki/Examples-with-code#pcolormesh-positive-only-data"><img src="https://raw.github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/master/ipython_notebooks/pcolormesh_prettyplotlib_negative_labels.png" height="202"></a></td>
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Quotes
"Dis ain't no uglyplotlib" - Anonymous