When you want to create plots for your journal publications, you often end up with problems like wrong font size, too much space around a figure, or all kind of scaling related issues. This becomes even worse if you try to align multiple plots to each other in a grid, where slight differences in size …
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Matplotlib Performance
When generating images for ever larger growing data sets, the performance in creating and writing them to the disk is no longer negligible. Imagine a data set with 10,000 astronomical sources, each observed in 10 bands. Just writing out an image for each band would result in 100,000 images – leaving apart any analysis plots. …
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