Matplotlib is a plotting library for Python, built on NumPy and often used interactively with IPython. Its compact "pyplot" interface is similar to the plotting functions of MATLAB®.

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Plotting from a Pandas dataframe

I want to improve my code. Is it possible to get the plot without repeating the same instructions multiple lines? The data comes from a Pandas' dataframe, but I am only plotting the last column (...
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Read in file, Filter out records, output results

I have been working on a project for some time and have let one Python file grow into a huge file that tries to do everything. The structure is pretty flat and I don't like it. I've used other ...
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Multigeneration evolution simulator, graphing phenotypic change

I created an evolution simulator. It takes random chance and applies it to phenotypes of species. This was very much for fun, and I would love any input on: Readability of code Efficiency of ...
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Plot heat map from csv file using numpy and matplotlib

There's a csv file with format: x0, y0, v00 x0, y1, v01 ... x1, y0 v10 ... And what I want to do is to plot a heat map, in which at location (x, y) the value v ...
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Scoreboard with score evolution plots using classes

I've very recently started using OOP paradigms for the code in my work (academic research). As an exercise I tried coding this quick scoreboard. I'm not interested in improving the 'display' part, I ...
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Evaluating a series of Legendre polynomials

The following function represents the electrostatic potential, in spherical coordinates, due to a ring of charge \$q=1\$ and radius \$R=1\$, placed in the plane \$x\$-\$y\$: $$\phi(r,\theta) = \sum_{...
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Histogram of a string

I'm teaching myself Python and when a friend posted this sentence Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e'...
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Run several Python programs and check for errors

For a post-graduate subject that I present, I maintain a repository of examples (on GitHub) from the textbook which is contributed and edited by my students, who are not very Python literate. I have ...
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Matplotlib: Display y value as a marker

I created a plot on which the y value is visible with the marker. What's your opinion ? I wonder if I could have done something simpler. (code should run in a Jupyter notebook) ...
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Web crawler that charts stock ticker data using matplotlib

I've built a web crawler using the BeautifulSoup library that pulls stock ticker data from CSV files on Yahoo finance, and charts the data using ...
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Orbital Trajectory simulator

I have written a simple program to do trajectory simulation in the Earth-Moon system, it still has a long way to go I am working on making it more class oriented and am looking into implementing a ...
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A matplotlib scatter function inside a for loop

This function is working exactly as I want, only, it's taking too long. For speed ups, I've tried to do as much as I can before the main for loop by declaring ...
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Energy curve plotter

I am not much experienced in Python, just write some small script. All my codes are procedural. They work fine, and I always check them with pep8. One of them is: ...
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Python object-oriented pipe cooling simulations

Here is my code simulating liquid in a pipe cooling under different conditions. How did I do approaching this in an object orientated way? Is there any way I can improve this code? ...
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Racetrack plotter

My Racetrack is just that. A Racetrack. You can't race it (yet) because I had trouble with collision detection, but I wanted to share it anyway. It creates a base polygon by using ...
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Generic plotting wrapper (around matplotlib)

I am experimenting with making my own re-usable libraries. Therefore, I decided to start with some of the plots that I generally use during development/debugging to check what is actually inside my ...
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A big “Game of Life”

Our quest: Create a big simulation for Conway's Game of Life, and record the entire simulation history. Current Approach: Cython is used for an iterate method. The ...
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Python program to check if a set of points is at land or at sea

I have written a program that divides an geographical area up in cells with size 0.002 degrees longitude by 0.001 degrees ...
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Outputting scatter plots

I have written a python function that outputs scatter plots using Matplotlib after processing the data a little. It works but it's painfully slow. I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions as to ...
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Numerics for a game theory calculation using expected utility

I am trying to replicate Bruce B. de Mesquita's (BDM) results on political game theory for prediction. Based on where actors stand on issues, their capabilities, salience, BDM's method attempts to ...
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Charting daily balance

I have been trying my hand at Python lately. I have been able to look at code examples and create a custom application that queries a Microsoft SQL Server, pulls out two columns (date, balance) and ...
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Calculating doubling times from data points

In the code below, noisy data points with unique errors are created. From this, an exponential function is fitted to the data points, and then doubling times (10 unit windows) are calculated. I'm ...
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Covering Array Sorter

A covering array is a N x k array in which each element is a from a set of v symbols, and ...
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Drawing a cloud of points

I decided that it would be nice to write some code to draw a cloud of points. Of course my first thought was to draw some random points but the result is not cloud-ish, it is well... random. In the ...
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Modified Taylor diagrams

There is a type of diagram summarizing how well predictions from numerical models fit expectations; one obvious use case is comparing machine-learning regression models. Modified Taylor diagrams are ...
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Predator Prey Simulation

Below is a simple random walk predator prey simulation that is optimized to the best of my abilities. I would love to hear about any improvements that can made. ...
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Visualize Parts of Song as Analyzed by Echonest

This is the a bit of code that works with Echonest API's pyechonest and remix libraries combined with matplotlib.pyplot to offer a simple visual representation of the start and end "parts" of a music ...
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Linear regression with visualization

I have created a small script that: Creates a lot of random points. Runs a small brute force search to find a rect that has a low error, that is a good fit for the data. Runs a linear regression on ...
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Matplotlib-venn and keeping lists of the entries

Having come upon the wonderful little module of matplotlib-venn I've used it for a bit, I'm wondering if there's a nicer way of doing things than what I have done so far. I know that you can use the ...
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Colorbar for Matplotlib 3D patch plot

I am trying to make a 3D grid plot in Python using Matplotlib. The grid consists of hexahedral cells (with qudrilateral surfaces). The surfaces should be colored according to their height, that is: ...
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Plotting many images at once in matplotlib

I am using numpy and matplotlib to do a statistical simulation. The simulation itself is pretty fast thanks to numPy vectorizatio, however the plotting is slow since I still use a ...
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Prepare data for a contour plot with matplotlib

My question concerns the following Python code which is already working. As far as I have seen, there are very elegant solutions of compacting code. Do you have any ideas on how to make the following ...
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Time and temperature displaying program for Raspberry Pi

This program displays either the time, current temperature, 12hr graph of temps, 24 hr graph of temp or a week's graph of temps. Selection is based on user input of one of the GPIO pins. Please ...
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Reading from a file and connect all data in one big data than to use generators

Is there better way to read from a file and connect all data in one big data than to use generators? At the moment, I do the following: use generators to read data from files. use NumPy to pack all ...
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Social network evolution

I am writing a piece of code which models the evolution of a social network. The idea is that each person is assigned to a node and relationships between people (edges on the network) are given a ...