Re: [Matplotlib-users] Millions of data points saved to pdf

[Shahar S. K. <ka...@po...>]

What do you consider a gap?Perhaps if you know that you can find those in your data and if you really want to visualize the gaps, plot those instead of the data.  
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On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Alan G Isaac <ala...@gm...> wrote:

> Suppose each data point is only 1 point (1/72 ") in diameter.
> A solid line across a 20" page is less than 1500 points.
> You're using a fraction of a page per graph and trying to
> plot 5,000-15,000 points per graph.  This is pointless (pun
> intended) for visual display, especially since you do not
> care about the individual points.  What happens if you
> decimate the points?  Is the result acceptable?
> Perhaps you could do even better than that, given your
> posted description.  Fit a line to the points, and only
> plot the fitted line.  Or use something like `hexbin`.
> Alan Isaac
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