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Matplotlib is a plotting library for Python, built on NumPy and often used interactively with IPython. Its compact "pyplot" interface is similar to the plotting functions of MATLAB®.

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When writing Code Review answers, it becomes often necessary to measure how long the modified code takes vs how long the OP's code takes. I needed a nice way to visualize this as a function of the ...
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I have written a simple program to do trajectory simulation in the Earth-Moon system, it still has a long way to go I am working on making it more class oriented and am looking into implementing a ...
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My Racetrack is just that. A Racetrack. You can't race it (yet) because I had trouble with collision detection, but I wanted to share it anyway. It creates a base polygon by using ...
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I've create a simple interface for viewing a time-series as it changes over time in matplotlib. You can pause, reset or click/drag on the time-line to change the view. Have I used the matplotlib API ...
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The past week I have tinkered making a sound visualizer using Tkinter, Matplotlib, NumPy, PyAudio and using a thread to be able to play the sound and to display the plot at the same time. I have been ...
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I am learning Python and I tried to do a program to find K points from a set of N points, farthest as much as possible (I'm not ...
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I am trying to replicate Bruce B. de Mesquita's (BDM) results on political game theory for prediction. Based on where actors stand on issues, their capabilities, salience, BDM's method attempts to ...
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Our quest: Create a big simulation for Conway's Game of Life, and record the entire simulation history. Current Approach: Cython is used for an iterate method. The ...
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NOTE: See follow up to this question here I created a simple python script to plot quadratic, cubic and quartic polynomials with integer coefficients between -4 and 4. It uses numpy to find the roots ...
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For a university assignment I had to plot different polynomial functions depending on one single parameter. That parameter gave the number of supporting points to interpolate a given function in the ...
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This program displays either the time, current temperature, 12hr graph of temps, 24 hr graph of temp or a week's graph of temps. Selection is based on user input of one of the GPIO pins. Please ...
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I'm creating a rectangular prism function, whose output looks like this: I think that this code can be improved by optimizing the use of np.meshgrid with a Python ...
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I made a random-walk predator-prey simulation that focuses on individual animals instead of the (maybe) more common array-based approach. I'd like to hear your opinion about this: how could the ...
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I want to have someone reviewing and helping me get some good ideas in how to improve my current project. All information about the project is in the following github link. I would also appreciate ...
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There is a type of diagram summarizing how well predictions from numerical models fit expectations; one obvious use case is comparing machine-learning regression models. Modified Taylor diagrams are ...
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Below is a simple random walk predator prey simulation that is optimized to the best of my abilities. I would love to hear about any improvements that can made. ...
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This is the a bit of code that works with Echonest API's pyechonest and remix libraries combined with matplotlib.pyplot to offer a simple visual representation of the start and end "parts" of a music ...
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In order to avoid having to make any real progress (at least for a short time), I wrote a script that measures how much progress I have made so far, instead. Specifically, this script sums up the file ...
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This is my first script that I've written. As a result, I'm sure there are extra lines that are unneeded, or maybe better more concise ways of doing things than I have done here. I have tried to add ...
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I have written a program that divides an geographical area up in cells with size 0.002 degrees longitude by 0.001 degrees ...
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I'm teaching myself Python and when a friend posted this sentence Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's,...
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Recently, I became very interested in a probability practice problem in my textbook for my class. I decided to implement it in code and I think I got most of it implemented. Right now, I'm hoping to ...
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I would like to have some insights on the code I created. It would be really insightful for me to get some feedback about the code, what I should do differently, if there is an easier, more elegant ...
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Here is the code as it stands right now: ...
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I am not much experienced in Python, just write some small script. All my codes are procedural. They work fine, and I always check them with pep8. One of them is: ...
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I have a csv file that looks like this: ...
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The script below is used to determine relay operating times, as defined in the standard IEC 60255. The equation and relevant information can be found here. ...
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For plotting I often use a dictionary that contains my data of interest, regarding my numerical simulations. For example I have a numpy array - let's call it ...
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I would like to share a matplotlib real-time monitor plot that I needed for another application. The basic trick is to reverse the time, so that t=0 is now and t=...
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Double Pendulum I made a little application that embeds a matplotlib dynamic plot into tkinter that enables control through the ...
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I have written a python function that outputs scatter plots using Matplotlib after processing the data a little. It works but it's painfully slow. I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions as to ...
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I've got some time-series data. I want to examine the weekly and daily variation of that data. For weekly data I can make a plot like this, with the days along the horizontal axis: For daily data I ...
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I am always super interested in both science and art, science and art are two different ways to describe the objective reality, they are two sides of the same coin, in many areas they overlap, and ...
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I have a program that uses pandas to read csv files and then generates and saves graphical charts. I have been trying to follow the SOLID principles so I have tried to seperate responsibilities. So ...
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I have a very simple Python script. All it does is open two data files from a given directory, read the data, make a series of plots and save as PDF. It works, but it is very slow. It takes almost 20 ...
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I've written a Python script to solve a system of coupled differential equations and then use the results to solve an eigenvalue problem. The full problem is: \$\frac{d^2}{dr^2} K(r) = \frac{K(r)}{r^2}...
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I have implemented the following Markov chain Monte Carlo MCMC algorithm for the German tank puzzle found here. I just want to make sure everything is legit and that I am not getting the right answer ...
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I computed a 2D vector field \$\mathbf{U} = (u(x,y), v(x,y))\$ with radial symmetry, parametrized as \$(u,v) = a(r) (x,y) + b(r) (-y,x)\$, where \$a(r), b(r)\$ are given as solution of an IVP which I ...
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I’ve written a small Python module to generate mock Slack workspace data, build a user–user interaction graph, and surface complementary collaborators based on skill sets. The key features are: Data ...
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I've been doing a Udemy course called: "Statistics for Data Science" and I decided to solve one of the homework with Python to kill two birds with one rocket #elon. The task was: The team of ...
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A covering array is an \$N \times k\$ array in which each element is a from a set of \$v\$ symbols, and for every \$t\$ columns, every possible set of \$v^t\$ choices of the symbols appears at least ...
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I'd like to plot an animation of Lissajous curves using Python and matplotlib's animate library. I really do not have a lot of experience with Python, so rather ...
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I have created a visualisation of sorting algorithms using tkinter and matplotlib. Please let me know what you think and if you have any suggestions or find errors. The aim of this code is to create ...
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I decided to write a program to solve Tangram puzzles. This went a bit out of hand and I ended up with 600+ lines of code. I don't think it should have taken so much code. Here is an image of a ...
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My question concerns the following Python code which is already working. As far as I have seen, there are very elegant solutions of compacting code. Do you have any ideas on how to make the following ...
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My code is working properly, but I am looking for better approach in the calculation of quantiles and the finding of the data in the dataframe. ...
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If you don't know what is Schelling's model of segregation, you can read it here. The Schelling model of segregation is an agent-based model that illustrates how individual tendencies regarding ...
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I have a list of 2D arrays which comes from a time evolution PDE (in \$(x, y, t)\$) that I solved numerically. There are \$k\$ arrays, which all have the same dimensions, and the arrays correspond to ...
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I have the following dictionary: ...
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I have made a 3D mesh. See below: And the code below: ...
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