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ggplot2 is love. ggplot2 is life. (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

the reason to make plots programmatically is typically because you're already processing the data in python in ways that would have been too complicated if you'd do it in ~~excel~~ a table calculation program.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dump it out as a CSV and import it to excel?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

that is manual labor each time you run the script, while plotting in python re-makes the plot automatically.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You could just automate the generation of the excel sheet as well - it's really just pick your poison.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Having worked on a programs that automatically generate and process data from excel spreadsheets for a large company, I shuddered when you said that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh my, no the other way round, spreadsheet loads the data and let excel handle it. I think you can probably even embed python at this point. I'm not seriously advocating for this approach either, to be clear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

This doesn’t help with reproducibility much. In fact it would make it worse as now you’re throwing windows into the mix needlessly as well as implicitly depending on excel at a point in time. Let’s not introduce more non determinism when it isn’t needed.