Tag: colors
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On proper selection of colors in graphs
How do you properly select a colormap for a graph? What makes the rainbow color map a wrong choice, and what are the proper alternatives? Today, I stumbled upon a...
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What is the biggest problem of the Jet and Rainbow color maps, and why is it not as evil as I thought?
There was a consensus among the data visualization purists that the rainbow color map, and it’s close cousin Jet are bad. Really bad. These colormaps used to be popular at...
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Useful redundancy — when using colors is not completely useless
The maximum data-ink ratio principle implies that one should not use colors in their graphs if the graph is understandable without the colors. The fact that you can do something,...
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Do you REALLY need the colors?
Seaborn is a Python visualization library based on matplotlib. It provides a high-level interface for drawing attractive statistical graphics. Look at this example from the seaborn documentation site >>> import...