Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib produced plots in academic journal articles

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Fernando Perez <fpe...@gm...> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Nelle Varoquaux
> <nel...@gm...> wrote:
>> Here is an example on circos' website of how they advertise the use of their
>> plotting library in research: http://circos.ca/intro/published_images/
>
> Wow, that is one hell of a visually spiffy site.  Can't find any links
> to development repositories, but in terms of targeting end users, the
> author (because it looks like a single-person job, given the many "I"
> references) has done a solid job.
>
> Sites like this remind me that we really should put a bit more effort
> into the 'marketing' aspect of our sites.  From what I can tell,
> circos is very nice but has nowhere the technical depth,  complexity
> and flexibility of matplotlib.  It's a fairly narrowly targeted tool.
> But a site like that makes it really appealing to people.
>
> Thanks for that link, Nelle!

Yes, that site was *full* of eye-candy. It's maybe a bit over the top,
but it's certainly a good reference.

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