Plotting

Scientific Plotting

• Matplotlib
  • Mpltools
  • seaborn
  • TrendVis
  • Cubehelix colormap
  • Good colormap: Viscm Video scipy 2015
• Holoviews (video)
• Plot.ly
• Palettable
• Metapost Tutorial

Creating high-quality graphics in MATLAB/MatplotLib

• Creating high-quality graphics in MATLAB
  • (D. Gleich)
    • GitHub Repository
  • (M. J. Zahr)
• Introduction to matplotlib by Nicolas P. Rougier
• Creating publication-quality with matplotlib by Jean-Baptiste Mouret
• Native Latex plot with matplotlib
• Rougier et al, Ten Simple Rules for Better Figures. PLoS Comput Biol 10(9), 2014
• Video State of Matplotlib
• Time Maps: Visualizing Discrete Events Across Many Timescales
• Tutorial plotting Pandas + Matplotlib
• Implementation of typographic and design principles

Example (good example)

• Heatmap with matplotlib using matshow
• Example of clean plot
• Reordering matrix elements to reflect column and row clustering in naiive python
• plotting results of hierarchical clustering ontop of a matrix of data in python
• Generate a heatmap in MatPlotLib using a scatter data set
• Efficient method of calculating density of irregularly spaced points
• bokeh tile provider demo
• Plot small network Cover of PNAS
• Python graph gallery
• Geoplot: geospatial data visualization

GIS

• Shapefile with python
• Visualizing My Location History with Python, Shapely, and Basemap
• Qgis Tutorial

Visualization

• D3
  • D3.js with Jupyther notebook
• gcmap: Draw great-circle maps from large sets of coordinate pairs
• Circular Layout with Circos
  • Circos Class
• OpenGL Getting started
• Vispy
• 3D Earth map with blender

Graphs

• Divided edge bundling
• Holten, D., "Hierarchical Edge Bundles: Visualization of Adjacency Relations in Hierarchical Data," in Visualization and Computer Graphics, IEEE Transactions on , vol.12, no.5, pp.741-748, Sept.-Oct. 2006
• Network visualization with R

Visualization example

• Visualizing MBTA Data
• Redrawing the brain with Bokeh