Visualization using Python
==========================

Basics
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-  `Ten simple rules for better
   figures <https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003833&type=printable>`__

   -  [1]: Know Your Audience; [2]: Identify Your Message; [3]: Adapt
      the Figure to the Support Medium; [4]: Captions are not Optional;
      [5]: Do Not trust the Defaults; [6]: Use Color Effectively; [7]:
      Do Not Mislead the Reader; [8]: Avoid ‘‘Chartjunk’’; [9]: Message
      Trumps Beauty; [10]: Get the Right Tool

-  `Basic guide for plotting with
   Matplotlib <https://realpython.com/python-matplotlib-guide/>`__

   -  This is a very good introduction for Matplotlib

Great Examples
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-  `Textbook Figures for Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning
   in Astronomy <http://www.astroml.org/book_figures/index.html>`__

SciPy John Hunter Excellence in Plotting Contest
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  `The 2013
   gallery <http://conference.scipy.org/jhepc2013/index.html>`__ - Many
   are astronomy related and excellent examples
-  `The 2014
   gallery <http://members.cbio.mines-paristech.fr/~nvaroquaux/jhepc/index.html>`__
-  `The 2015
   gallery <https://scipy2016.scipy.org/ehome/115969/276538/>`__ Link
   not working…
-  `The 2018 entries <http://droettboom.com/jhepc2018-judge-packet/>`__

Color and Colour
----------------

-  `Your Friendly Guide to Colors in Data
   Visualisation <https://blog.datawrapper.de/colorguide/>`__

   -  Pretty much the only thing you need to read about color.

-  `Why rainbow colormap is
   harmful <https://blogs.egu.eu/divisions/gd/2017/08/23/the-rainbow-colour-map/>`__

Matplotlib
~~~~~~~~~~

-  `Gallery of named colors in
   Matplotlib <https://matplotlib.org/examples/color/named_colors.html>`__
-  `Gallery of colormaps in
   Matplotlib <https://matplotlib.org/examples/color/colormaps_reference.html>`__

Fancier and Better
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  `ColorBrewer2 - Interactive colormap
   builder <http://colorbrewer2.org>`__
-  `Nippon Colors - Fancy traditional Japanese
   colors <http://nipponcolors.com>`__

Better Colormaps
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

-  `Palettable - Color palettes for
   Python <https://jiffyclub.github.io/palettable/>`__

   -  Really useful, with a lot of nice selections. Including color
      palettable from Wes Anderson movies.

-  `CMasher: Scientific colormaps for making accessible, informative and
   cmashing plots <https://cmasher.readthedocs.io/index.html>`__

   -  “The colormaps in CMasher are all designed to be perceptually
      uniform sequential using the viscm package; most of them are
      color-vision deficiency (CVD; color blindness) friendly”

-  `Scientific Colour-Maps by Fabio
   Crameri <http://www.fabiocrameri.ch/visualisation.php>`__

   -  “Scientific colour-maps, like the colour maps devon, davos, oslo,
      and broc, are perceptually uniform, perceptually ordered, readable
      as B&W print and colour-vision-deficiency (CVD) friendly.”