Re: [matplotlib-devel] logit scale for frequencies

[Thomas C. <tca...@gm...>]

Please create a pull request.

This sounds reasonable to me, but I have never seen a plot with that scale
and don't really understand it from your description. Seeing the code
usually clarifies things.

Tom

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014, 05:58 Fabio Zanini <fab...@tu...>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I've been using matplotlib with great satisfaction for a few years, but
> one feature I've been missing is a "logit" scale. This is essentially a
> nonlinear scale that is log both towards 0+ and log towards 1-. It is
> useful when one has frequencies in a population (i.e. floats between 0
> and 1) and both rare events and very common ones are interesting.
>
> For instance, say you ask about the fraction of people with blue eyes in
> various world populations, you want to spot even tiny deviations from
> zero or one.
>
> I have coded a scale according to matplotlib's documentation and it
> works well, so I was wondering whether you are interested into merging
> it into the the main repository. I think it'd be useful because lots of
> people have such frequency data, especially now that matplotlib is
> becoming popular in the biology/social sciences research communities.
>
> If there is interest, I'll just start a pull request on github and try
> to adapt the code to your coding style. It's already PEP8 and similia.
>
> Thanks. Cheers,
> Fabio
>
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