Re: [matplotlib-devel] How to contribute a new kind of plot

[Paul H. <pmh...@gm...>]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Pierre Barbier de Reuille <
pi...@ba...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> for my own research, I have implemented a function plotting datasets as
> violin plots ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violin_plot ). I attach an
> example output that I am using.
>
> It is fairly stand-alone, with the expection of a scipy dependency for
> computation of the estimated density of probability of the shown. Before
> distribution, I will need to document the function and classes associated.
>
> My question is: what is the process if there a place I can make the code
> available for consideration?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
Pierre,

The scipy dependency is unfortunately a deal breaker for matplotlib. I'm
not a core dev, but typically you have a work around the dependency in some
way (e.g., make the user specify the KDE for each dataset).

Also, the statsmodels project has this functionality:
http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/devel/generated/statsmodels.graphics.boxplots.violinplot.html#statsmodels.graphics.boxplots.violinplot

Perhaps your ideas and approach could be used to improve
their implementation.
-paul