After undertaking one more attempt to wrap my head around AlgebraOfGraphics I started to suspect the problem is not only me being stupid, lazy, and unable to abstract logical thinking. Ok, please help me to make some simple plots. First let’s produce some sample data using AlgebraOfGraphics, DataF…

First, some general consideration. [image] Benny: it’s also true that it’s REALLY hard to write something like that even for very dedicated and thorough developers. I guess it is especially hard for developers, as the qualities required to be a good developer, and to be a good technical writ…

Now, what can be done. IMO, one of my (my personal) problems was the Tutorial starts with a complex multidimensional dataset, right from the beginning tries to show off all the power of AoG, and to present all the powerfull underlying concepts - all of that foreign for me. My modest bandwidth was ov…

Can’t agree with the personal taste of penguins :face_with_tongue: But I would personally love to have these additional docs, maybe as a TL; DR. At a first glance, this is quite clean.

Eben, You are correct, we all do come from different perspectives. As someone who works extensively with health data, and who previously worked with R using both the base, lattice, and occasionally ggplot libraries, the AoG home page example and tutorial seemed made with care. I first encountered t…

[image] George9000: However, if you would like to speak to others coming from a physics background similar to yours I was not speaking about Physics, I was speaking about experimental sciences. In doing simulations, I was happily producing tons of heatmaps. But if you are conducting experimen…

Seems that once we got off on what documentation should be, never got around to answering the questions. My preference is for wide data (one row with observations of n variables) but I showed both and also just in CairoMakie. using AlgebraOfGraphics using ColorSchemes using DataFrames # sample dat…

[image] technocrat: Seems that once we got off on what documentation should be, never got around to answering the questions It was probably buried under the 30 posts here, but Jules answered the questions early on, I made a PR to add them to the docs, @Eben60 reviewed, Jules merged, and they …

[image] ericphanson: It was probably buried under the 30 posts here, but Jules answered the questions early on @technocrat , all the same, thank you for your examples! Seeing things done in a slightly different way is always helpful. One small correction: # NOTE: AlgebraOfGraphics doesn't ac…

[image] aplavin: They are fine for a set of basic plots that perfectly align with the “happy path”, but for basically anything I found that I fight the “grammar” more than it helps me. Now I see - “ double axes considered harmful ”. :frowning: So apparently it is just for statisticians.

As far as I know, statisticians do not use double axes. Only those not knowing statistics would use it.

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Now I see - “double axes considered harmful”. So apparently it is just for statisticians.

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