[Matplotlib-devel] GSoC 2017: Layout Manager

[Kanchana Ranasinghe]

Thanks a lot. Will find and go through the pr. Also do you have any other
suggestions for my proposal?

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 6:33 AM Hannah <story645 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Using the unit interface, CategoricalConvertor maps strings to numbers. If
> unit support can be extended to more plotting functions, then the norm can
> work directly in data space (so with strings). This means users can just
> use a colormap without having to explicitly set a norm. A norm then would
> just be used to specify which of the data to register and which to leave
> out, or the data/color mapping-I started prototyping this in  one of the
> PRs.
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> On Apr 1, 2017 4:54 AM, "Kanchana Ranasinghe" <kahnchana at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Really sorry for constantly troubling you over the weekend. Another small
> question about something I'm confused about. Regarding categorical data
> support for the norm and cmap functions.
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> Currently, norm maps numerical data to [0,1] interval and cmap assigns
> different colors to each point of [0,1] interval. This integrates with the
> various scalarMappables to plot data. In making categorical units support,
> norm will map strings to [0,1] interval and cmaps will remain the same. Is
> this correct?
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> Thank you
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> With Regards
> Kanchana Ranasinghe
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> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Kanchana Ranasinghe <kahnchana at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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> Thanks a lot. I got it.
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> With Regards
> Kanchana Ranasinghe
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> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:34 PM, Hannah <story645 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Kind of? I think we may be talking about the same thing from different
> angles. I'm thinking about any function that takes in (and therefore
> returns) a cmap & norm that can then be passed into scalerMappables to make
> a colorbar. This includes stuff like imshow, matshow, pcolor, pcolormesh,
> scatter, and probably others.
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Regards,
Kanchana Ranasinghe
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