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Re: Plotnine

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Post by stared » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 10:05 AM UTC

pks016 wrote: post #61

stared wrote: post #51

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Violin plots have an interesting reputation ( https://xkcd.com/1967/ , https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/comments/91ex4u/is_it_just_... , https://jabde.com/2022/12/22/banned-violin-plots/ ). For showing distributions, I much prefer strip plots ( https://seaborn.pydata.org/generated/seaborn.stripplot.html ), perhaps with opacity, or swarm plots ( https://seaborn.pydata.org/generated/seaborn.swarmplot.html ) - no averag…

Another alternative is raincloud plot (depending on data).

I didn't know it has a name. But I have been using similar thing, https://github.com/harbor-framework/terminal-bench-science/p...

Re: Plotnine

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Post by pks016 » Thu, Jun 25, 2026, 6:16 PM UTC

stared wrote: post #81

pks016 wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another alternative is raincloud plot (depending on data).

I didn't know it has a name. But I have been using similar thing, https://github.com/harbor-framework/terminal-bench-science/p...

Interesting. Btw I agree with some of the comments. The framing/language of the question is a bit weird.

Re: Plotnine

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Post by bbminner » Fri, Jun 26, 2026, 1:23 AM UTC

bittumenEntity wrote: post #46

sdenton4 wrote: post #39

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kwargs exists, and is rather more pythonic. Just pass the kwargs dict to a standard formatting function, et voila.

Sadly, this drive towards the API design that matplotlib resembles, the raison d'etre of this library is the unusual (imho, great) API

Could you elaborate on what exactly does such syntax provide over kwargs? To me it looks like verbatim x=a, y=b replaced by x(a)+y(b) in the argument section.