First, are there plans to eventually embed autogenerated plots in
the the "examples" section (http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/
) <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/%29> in the same way
that they're embedded within the user guide?
There are plans to do that, and probably to have a "thumbnail
gallery" of examples as well. The sticking point is that many of
the examples generate multiple figures, and we currently don't have
a way to save those out automatically from the documentation. Just
need to make that work.
A thumbnail gallery of all the examples in the User's Guide and
Examples is a great idea!
Plots are inherently visual, and humans have a huge amount of built-in
visual processing power. Searching a even an enormous page of images
to find something that looks like what you're trying to create will be
much more efficient that trying to come up with the right keyword if
you don't know what it is already, or scanning a table of contents.
Actually, it reminds me of the "graphical abstracts" that many
chemistry journals use - one figure, often showing the molecule(s)
that the paper is about, which readers can browse online in lieu of
searching or reading long ISO approved chemical names... which often
allows almost instant recognition of papers you'll be interested in,
or at least a serious pruning of the search space.
Second, in the sidebar on the main page, in the "Need Help?"
section, I'm seeing a bunch of weird gunk that's probably not
supposed to be getting through to the web...:
That seems to have been fixed in the meantime. Still seeing it?
Yep, looks good.
Thanks for all your work!
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