plot / graph connecting re ordered lists

[duncan smith]

On 23/01/18 23:42, Vincent Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 4:15 PM Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:51:55 -0700, Vincent Davis
>> <vincent at vincentdavis.net> declaimed the following:
>>
>>> Looking for suggestions. I have an ordered list of names these names will
>>> be reordered. I am looking to make a plot, graph, with the two origins of
>>
>>         IE: you have two lists with the same items in different orders...
>>
>>> the names in separate columns and a line connecting them to visually
>>> represent how much they have moved in the reordering.
>>> Surely there is some great example code for this on the net an am not
>>> finding a clean example.
>>>
>>
>>         Determine positions:
>>
>> pos = []
>> for p, name in enumerate(first_list):
>>         np = second_list.index(name)
>>         pos.append( (name, p, np) )
>>
>> for (name, p, np) in pos:
>>         draw_line((1,p) , (2, np))
>>         label( (1, p), name)
>>
>>         Exact details of graphics package and scaling left as an exercise
> 
> 
> Actualy, it’s recomendations for a graphing package And an example using it
> for such a graph that I am most interested in. I know how to relate the
> names on the 2 lists.
> 
> 
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Maybe http://graphviz.org/ and http://matthiaseisen.com/articles/graphviz/

Duncan