opinionated 0.0.2.7

opinionated provides simple, clean stylesheets for plotting with matplotlib and seaborn.

opinionated provides simple, clean stylesheets for plotting with matplotlib and seaborn.

It’s modeled and named after hrbrthemes in R, by hrbrmstr, which are “Opinionated, typographic-centric ggplot2 themes”. It’s not meant to be an exact clone though, I have made a few different choices.

The main application I had in mind was to increase the quality of plots in colab-environments, where there is a very small range of preinstalled fonts. The package therefore automatically downloads fonts from GoogleFonts. But I think everything should also work on your local machine. Be aware though, that it’s not super well-tested, and might e. g. fail with facets.

Installation

pip install opinionated

Usage

The package is very simple to use, you just import it and set the style you want:

import opinionated
plt.style.use("opinionated_rc")

Then you do your plotting:

f, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 7))
sns.scatterplot(x="bill_length_mm", y="flipper_length_mm", hue='species', data=penguins, s=100, alpha=0.9)

And finally, you can slap on some additional information, using some convenience functions with reasonable defaults. Of course, the usual ways of setting titles, legends, etc. still work.

opinionated.add_legend(title='Species')
opinionated.add_attribution('by Maximilian Noichl')
opinionated.set_title_and_suptitle('Penguins!','They are an excellent type of bird!')

Here’s the result:

This certainly does look better than what the defaults would give you, right? –

You can find more options, stylesheets, etc. in the github-repository!