Matplotlib is the excellent workhorse plotting library for python. As great as matplotlib is, it could occasionally do with a little stylistic improvement [1] [2]. I recently came across a cool feature in matplotlib that lets you plot in the style of the popular XKCD comics, with a fun font and a more ‘sketchy’ line… Read More »
Data science can mean different things to different people, but we can try to define it by the techniques a data scientist tends to use. A recent online poll gave a top 10 of algorithms and methods used by Data Scientists. This post goes through that top 10 list of data science techniques to flesh… Read More »
I’ve recently been looking into python packages that could help improve the appearance of matplotlib – the venerable, go-to plotting library for Python. For quickly plotting some data vanilla matplotlib generally does just fine, but for truly ‘publication-ready’ plots, you’ll probably want to look to one of the more advanced libraries. In this post a… Read More »