I would like to be able to make a plot with the x axis scaled as the log of the log. These types of plots are coming up rather frequently in my ME courses and I've been trying to figure out how to do it, and find that there doesn't seem to be a clean builtin way to do it either in python or in Matlab. Both support semilog (linear vs log(x)) and log-log (log(y) vs log(x)) plots, but I'm not seeing any way to get a semiloglog (linear vs log(log(x))) or log-loglog (log(y) vs log(log(x))) plot.
Anyone have any ideas on this? I could do some conversions by simply applying log(log(xvalues)) to my data, but drawing the grid, tick marks, and labels gets kinda tricky, so I was hoping someone might have already built a library for this.
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I'm new to plotly/plotly express and i'm having a really hard time finding any working example other than the documentation examples for the library (which are really basic and standard).
I have, let's say a scatter plot, in plotly express:
fig = px.scatter(any_random_data)
And i want to add to that plot an image in a fixed (x,y) position, but i don't know (and can't find!) if there is any kind of method for that.
I've seen there is an add_trace() method to add traces to the plot (i guess), is there any similar function for adding images? (Like add_image() or something)
I'm trying to analyze a set of costs using python.
The columns in the data frame are,
'TotalCharges', 'TotalPayments', 'TotalDirectVariableCost', 'TotalDirectFixedCost', 'TotalIndirectVariableCost', 'TotalIndirectFixedCost.
When I tried to plot them using the whisker plots, this is how they could display
I need to properly analyze these data and understand their behavior.
The following are my questions.
Is there any way that I can use wisker plots more clearly?
I believe since these are costs, we cannot ignore them as outliars. So keeping the data as it is what else I can use to represent data more clearly?
Thanks
There are a couple of things you could do:
larger print area
rotate the axis
plot one axis log scale
That said, I think you should examine once again your understanding of what a box and whisker plot is for.
Additionally, you might consider posting this on the Math or Cross Validated site as this doesn't have much to do with code.
I'm looking to augment my scatterplot (Python code, using Matplotlib and/or Seaborn) with marginal distributions (here plotted as histograms, but could also be kernel density estimates):
with a visualization of the differences (histogram/density estimate), like so:
I could probably roll my own, but this seems like such a common use case that I'm suspecting this might be implemented somewhere already in Matplotlib or Seaborn. A good fifteen minutes of Googling did not yield anything, and it also has not been asked before here on StackOverflow. Does anyone know of an off-the-shelf solution for this? (If no one does, I'll write my own and post it of course.) Thanks!
I'm having some trouble visualizing a certain dataset that I have in a contour plot. The issue is that I have a bunch of datapoints (X,Y,Z) for which the Z values range from about 2 to 0, where a lot of the interesting features are located in the 0 to 0.3 range. Using a normal scaling, they are very difficult to see, as illustrated in this image:
Now, I have thought about what else to do. Of course there is logarithmic scaling, but then I first need to think about some sort of mapping, and I am not 100% sure how one would do that. Inspired by this question one could think of a mapping of the type scaling(x) = Log(x/min)/Log(max/min) which worked reasonably well in that question.
Also interesting was the followup discussed here.
where they used some sort of ArcSinh scaling function. That seemed to enlarge the small features quite well, proportionally to the whole.
So my question is two fold in a way I suppose.
How would one scale the data in my contour plot in such a way that the small amplitude features do not get blown away by the outliers?
Would you do it using either of the methods mentioned above, or using something completely different?
I am rather new to python and I am constantly amazed by all the things that are already out there, so I am sure there might be a built in way that is better than anything I mentioned above.
For completeness I uploaded the datafile here (the upload site is robustfiles.com, which a quick google search told me is a trustworthy website to share things like these)
I plotted the above with
data = np.load("D:\SavedData\ThreeQubitRess44SpecHighResNormalFreqs.npy")
fig, (ax1) = plt.subplots(1,figsize=(16,16))
cs = ax1.contourf(X, Y, data, 210, alpha=1,cmap='jet')
fig.colorbar(cs, ax=ax1, shrink=0.9)
ax1.set_title("Freq vs B")
ax1.set_ylabel('Frequency (GHz)'); ax1.set_xlabel('B (arb.)')
Excellent question.
Don't scale the data. You'll be looking for compromises in ranges with many scaling functions.
Instead, use a custom colormap. That way, you won't have to remap your actual data and can easily customize the visualization of the regions you'd like to highlight. Another example can be found in the scipy cookbook and there's quite a few more on the internet.
Another option is to break the plot into 2 separate regions by breaking the axis like so
I am trying to create a 2D Contour Map in Python that looks like this:
In this case, it is a map of chemical concentration for a number of points on the map. But for the sake of simplicity, we could just say it's elevation.
I am given the map, in this case 562 by 404px. I am given a number of X & Y coordinates with the given value at that point. I am not given enough points to smoothly connect the line, and sometimes very few data points to draw from. It's my understanding that Spline plots should be used to smoothly connect the points.
I see that there are a number of libraries out there for Python which assist in creation of the contour maps similar to this.
Matplotlib's Pyplot Contour looks promising.
Numpy also looks to have some potential
But to me, I don't see a clear winner. I'm not really sure where to start, being new to this programming graphical data such as this.
So my question really is, what's the best library to use? Simpler would be preferred. Any insight you could provide that would help get me started the proper way would be fantastic.
Thank you.
In the numpy example that you show, the author is actually using Matplotlib. While there are several plotting libraries, Matplotlib is the most popular for simple 2D plots like this. I'd probably use that unless there is a compelling reason not to.
A general strategy would be to try to find something that looks like what you want in the Matplotlib example gallery and then modify the source code. Another good source of high quality Matplotlib examples that I like is:
http://astroml.github.com/book_figures/
Numpy is actually a N-dimensional array object, not a plotting package.
You don't need every pixel with data. Simply mask your data array. Matplotlib will automatically plot the area that it can and leave other area blank.
I was having this same question. I found that matplotlib has interpolation which can be used to smoothly connect discrete X-Y points.
See the following docs for what helped me through:
Matplotlib's matplotlib.tri.LinearTriInterpolator docs.
Matplotlib's Contour Plot of Irregularly Spaced Data example
How I used the above resources loading x, y, z points in from a CSV to make a topomap end-to-end