prefig

Lightning talk given at the Python in Astronomy (#pyastro15) workshop at the Lorentz Center, Leiden University. prefig is a python figure class which allows you to produce poster and presentation worthy plots in matplotlib by replacing one line of code.

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1. prefig github.com/rjsmethurst/prefig a python figure class for producing presentation & poster worthy plots #myfirsthack
2. Figure from: Willett. et al.(2015)
3. plt.figure() plt.errorbar(x, y, yerr, xerr=None, fmt=' ', marker='D') plt.plot(x, (m*x+c)) plt.xlabel('measured') plt.ylabel('observed') plt.savefig('test_orig.png’)
5. plt.figure() plt.errorbar(x,y, yerr, xerr=None, fmt=' ', marker='D') plt.plot(x, (m*x+c)) plt.xlabel('measured') plt.ylabel('observed') plt.savefig('test_orig.png’)
6. Prefig(axcol=‘w’, fontcol=‘w’) plt.errorbar(x,y, yerr, xerr=None, fmt=' ', marker='D') plt.plot(x, (m*x+c)) plt.xlabel('measured') plt.ylabel('observed') plt.savefig('test_orig.png’)
12. 12 github.com/rjsmethurst/prefig