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ruthpozuelo opened this issue Oct 28, 2022 · 9 comments
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[Doc]: Great resource for matplotlib beginners #24288

ruthpozuelo opened this issue Oct 28, 2022 · 9 comments
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https://matplotlib.org/stable/tutorials/introductory/quick_start.html

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I found your quick start guide really good to understand the basic concepts, but I would have loved to have a practical follow up guide that put the concepts into practice.

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I was pointed at this resource, and I think it would be a great addition to the quick start guide. It has answered a lot of the basic questions I had.
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Our plot lifecycle tutorial aims to be a putting it into practice guide. What sort of changes could we make to it so that it would be more helpful?

@ruthpozuelo
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A few things differ from both tutorials.
The tutorial I mentioned, it starts easy and then builds up incrementally until you have all the main transformations you would need on a chart.
It not only does this the conventional way, but it also shows how to iterate and create functions.
Lastly, it shows many common examples of different charts increasing the difficulty and explains it all beautifully.
It explains everything I have been wondering about in just one tutorial. First I have seen that does all the basics in one.
Just wonderful , but please ignore it if you don’t think it is useful!

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No I totally agree with you/think it's useful, I'm just trying to sort out which parts exactly are useful to figure out how to incorporate it into our existing tutorials or sort out what would make a good tutorial. We cover a lot of this in our examples, so I'm wondering if a tutorial that basically organizes some of them would make sense?

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I understand you question.
I am still going through the tutorial (a lot to cover in there) so when I am done, I can give you my perspective as a new user on what parts I found important and why?
Will take me a week or two before I can put something together, but if it is helpful, I can get back to you with that.

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Yeah take the time you need, but your feedback would be much appreciated. Also short notice but we have the new contributor meeting next week and that might be a good place to discuss these sorts of documentation contributions. https://scientific-python.org/calendars/

@ruthpozuelo
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It is a bit late for me to attend the meeting, but will give feedback here instead.

@stefmolin
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Somehow I stumbled upon this issue, so imagine my surprise to see a link to my content 😀 (and such high praise for it as well – much appreciated @ruthpozuelo)!

@story645 - I'm happy to go over how (and why) I designed this content, which is part of a workshop I present at conferences on data visualization in Python.

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story645 commented Nov 13, 2022 •
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@stefmolin that'd be great! Also, I'm gonna point to our last attempt at creating a getting started type tutorial 'cause that might provide some context/guidance/pitfalls of why status quo #19183

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Hi @stefmolin & @ruthpozuelo, if you've got time can you all check out #24498 and see if those examples would be helpful?

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