Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to visualize a, b results of x, y variables

[Joy m. m. <joy...@gm...>]

Maybe you could plot the ratio? That should give you rainfall per degree
Celsius.
On 9 Jul 2015 20:11, "Jonno" <jon...@gm...> wrote:

> I was thinking of doing that or having 2 surface plots but I think it
> would be visually quite confusing.
> I was trying to think of an example since I'm sure someone has come up
> with a nice way to display this kind of data.
> Imagine if the data was average temperature (a) and average rainfall (b)
> for a region in the world (lat/long = x,y). The goal is to display the data
> such that it's obvious where the locations are that have closest to the
> ideal temp/rain combination.
> How would you go about that?
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Sterling Smith <sm...@fu...>
> wrote:
>
>> In the x,y plane, could you overlay contours of a with contours of b?
>> -Sterling
>>
>> On Jul 8, 2015, at 8:19PM, Jonno <jon...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> > I have a bunch of experimental data points each of which has 2
>> variables (x,y) and 2 results (a,b). Each pair or x,y values produces a
>> pair of a,b resultant values.
>> > There is a single optimal pair of a,b values and I'd like to figure out
>> a way to illustrate the data to show the relationship between each x,y pair
>> and how close each a,b pair is to the ideal.
>> > I'm thinking about a dual surface/contour plot with 2 different z-axes.
>> Ideally I would center both z-axes at the ideal values. I don't know if
>> this is possible. Might be kinda messy.
>> >
>> > Any other thoughts? I'm sure there must be other examples where this is
>> a problem.
>> >
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