plottwist-py 1.0.1

plottwist makes plots reproducible from their PDFs.

plottwist

plottwist makes plots reproducible from their PDFs.

Perhaps you, like me, find yourself digitizing plots to get the data back from papers. That doesn't feel right, as most plots are digital nowadays anyway.

What if we just embed the plot data directly into itself?

plottwist transparently saves you Matplotlib actions and then encodes their data and parameters into a fancy link on the plot itself.

Installation

pip install plottwist-py

Twisting

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import plottwist

x = np.linspace(0, 1)

pt = plottwist.PlotTwist(plt.gca())
pt.plot(x, x**2, label='squared')
pt.scatter(x, x**3, label='cubed', s=10, marker='x')
pt.axvline(0.5, color="orange", linestyle='dashed')
pt.axhline(0.1, color="black", linestyle='dotted')
pt.legend(frameon=False)
pt.add_author("Ivan Markin")
pt.add_reference("https://doi.org/10.1103/6mtx-nftm")
pt.hide_at_the_origin()
plt.savefig("examples/plot.pdf", bbox_inches='tight')

Untwisting

Find the link hidden at the origin of the axes in the plot PDF, right-click, copy the URL, save it to a file, and reproduce the plot using plottwist:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import plottwist

pt = plottwist.PlotTwist(plt.gca())
with open("examples/plot.plottwist") as f:
    url = f.read()
pt.reproduce(url)
plt.show()
print(pt.data["metadata"])

You can try that yourself with the example file examples/plot.pdf.

Soundtrack

I keep trying to make something
Create something true
But I can't replicate you, huh
No, I can't replicate you
No, I can't replicate you, huh

Róisín Murphy - Can’t Replicate