[ANN] UnicodePlots.jl v1.0.0

Evizero · January 7, 2019, 3:05pm

Hello everyone!

I am happy to announce a major update to the UnicodePlots.jl code base.

Aside from finally having a proper, fully automated test-suite, the package also received a couple of new features as well as a graphical overhaul.

Changes include:

Improved visuals
Addition of boxplot (https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl/pull/84)
More flexible histogram, including support of plotting a fitted Histogram directly.
Axis scaling (e.g. log-scale) for barplot and histogram (https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl/pull/82)

Here a couple of screenshots on macOS:

zgornel · January 7, 2019, 3:17pm

This must be one of my favourite julia packages, congrats and keep up the good work

kristoffer.carlsson · January 7, 2019, 3:17pm

Fastest plot package that ALWAYS works!

chakravala · January 7, 2019, 3:44pm

Going to put it into startup.jl config file. Would be really awesome if it has a colored image or imshow type of plot available also, to plot pixels of fractals like Fatou.jl.

Ronis_BR · January 7, 2019, 3:45pm

This seems so nice! I did not know about it until now. Thanks for this!

Evizero · January 7, 2019, 3:49pm

This functionality is available in a separate package (because of dependencies)

chakravala · January 7, 2019, 10:29pm

Thanks, that’s useful! One other feature I noticed is missing: 2D parametric plots

Also polar plots are missing. These are just some ideas for what else can be done.

affans · January 7, 2019, 10:56pm

One of the Julia core team members actually suggested putting this in stdlib.

I agree with him.

Ronis_BR · January 8, 2019, 12:22am

It would be very, very nice to have a textual plotting system in stdlib! Many times I need to do some analysis in algorithms running at servers that I access through ssh. This package will be very handy!

IMHO, this package and StaticArrays.jl should be added to stdlib.

Yifan_Liu · January 8, 2019, 12:41am

Really like this package! Fast and straightforward!

DoktorMike · January 8, 2019, 6:27pm

Awesome work! I cannot express enough the joy of making a histogram in console mode.

ExpandingMan · January 8, 2019, 6:43pm

Thanks again so much for your work on this. The availability of log scaling makes this package much more useable to me.

It’s amazing how 95% of the time the unicode plots are more than adequate. Why bother with anything else? Well, I’m not going to.