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Credits

Included in Toyplot

Cynthia A. Brewer, “ColorBrewer: Color Advice for Maps,” http://colorbrewer2.org, accessed October, 2014.

K. Moreland, “Diverging Color Maps for Scientific Visualization,” presented at the ISVC ‘09: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing: Part II, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009, vol. 5876, no. 9, pp. 92–103, http://www.sandia.gov/~kmorel/documents/ColorMaps.

J. Talbot, S. Lin, and P. Hanrahan, “An Extension of Wilkinson’s Algorithm for Positioning Tick Labels on Axes,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 1036–1043, Nov. 2010, http://www.justintalbot.com/research/axis-labeling.

Paul S. Heckbert, “Nice numbers for graph labels,” 1990, In Graphics gems, Andrew S. Glassner (Ed.). Academic Press Professional, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA 61-63.

Ian Storm Taylor, “Design Tip: Never Use Black,” http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black, accessed October, 2014.

L. Byron and M. Wattenberg, “Stacked Graphs – Geometry & Aesthetics,” IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 1245–1252, Nov. 2008, http://leebyron.com/streamgraph/stackedgraphs_byron_wattenberg.pdf.

Color conversions in the toyplot.color module were ported to run in Python from the ColorMine library, http://colormine.org:

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Influential Reading

Jake Vanderplas, “Matplotlib and the Future of Visualization in Python,” http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2013/03/23/matplotlib-and-the-future-of-visualization-in-python, accessed October, 2014.

Michael Droettboom, “Matplotlib Lessons Learned,” http://mdboom.github.io/blog/2013/03/25/matplotlib-lessons-learned, accessed October, 2014.

Olga Botvinnik, “prettyplotlib: Painlessly create beautiful matplotlib plots,” http://blog.olgabotvinnik.com/prettyplotlib, accessed October 2014.