The way Gadfly chooses ticks leads to ugly plots very often?

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There’s an experiment for evaluating the claim in the title here. See the readme, and the SVG plots, viewable directly there (in the browser, on Gitlab).

My conclusion was that a very large percentage of these random Gadfly plots of polynomials over random intervals are ugly, stemming from Gadfly’s bad choices of x-axis ticks (I only evaluated the beauty over the x-axis).

I wonder how representative my tastes are.

Poll for my “issue 1”:

  • left-right imbalance in a plot is ugly
  • left-right imbalance is fine by me

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Poll for my “issue 2”:

  • huge amounts of blank space in a plot are ugly
  • huge amounts of blank space are fine by me

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General poll:

  • I mostly agree with the conclusions on Gitlab
  • I largely don’t agree with the conclusions

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I notice that providing Stat.xticks(coverage_weight = 7/8) to plot fixes most or all of these issues. Perhaps the default should be changed?