[Matplotlib-devel] GSoC 2017: Layout Manager

[Hannah]

Please be more explicit in what is confusing you.
Thank you

On Mar 31, 2017 1:41 PM, "Kanchana Ranasinghe" <kahnchana at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Thank you very much for the comments. Will change those.
>
> Also about scalarMappables. I read through the documentation
> <http://matplotlib.org/api/cm_api.html> and also the code at
> matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable. Is this a wrong place I am looking at? Can
> you explain a little bit about scalarMappables. I am confused about that.
>
> Thank you.
>
> With Regards
> Kanchana Ranasinghe
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Kanchana Ranasinghe <kahnchana at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I made a sample proposal. Could you let me know if it is okay?
>> https://github.com/kahnchana/gsoc/blob/master/2017/proposals
>> /ranasinghe-kanchana.md
>>
>> I still have to add some more details at the end.
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>>
>> With Regards
>> Kanchana Ranasinghe
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Kanchana Ranasinghe <
>> kahnchana at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you very much. Yes I will first finish going through the colormap
>>> and normalization documentation. And will write down what I plan to work
>>> on. I am following the guide and also went through some previous NumFocus
>>> proposals. Will follow those guidelines.
>>>
>>> About this project. I find this quite interesting and feel this would
>>> fit me well. So I will work on this and share the proposal with you soon.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> With Regards
>>> Kanchana Ranasinghe
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 12:31 AM, Kanchana Ranasinghe <
>>> kahnchana at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thank you very much. And extremely sorry for the delay on my side too.
>>>> I was really lost and struggling with understanding everything. I did
>>>> read through the example as well as most of your GSOC log last year. It was
>>>> really helpful in getting a good grasp on everything.
>>>>
>>>> I understood the work done in axis ticks for categorical data. I also
>>>> read through the open PR (#6934
>>>> <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/6934>), and #6214
>>>> <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6214>. I still
>>>> couldn't exactly understand what #6802
>>>> <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/6802> is about
>>>> though. I also went through #7383
>>>> <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/7383> and am trying
>>>> to work on that. Is this a good starting point for me? I still don't think
>>>> have a great overall idea about everything.
>>>>
>>>> Also I am writing a proposal. I was thinking of going with your
>>>> approach and extending categorical support for imshow. Is this a good idea
>>>> for the project? Really sorry about all the small questions. I am somewhat
>>>> new to opensource and finding it quite difficult.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> With Regards
>>>> Kanchana Ranasinghe
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Hannah <story645 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sorry for being late on this, but essentially the categorical color
>>>>> project is about building out support for this idea that strings can be as
>>>>> much data as numbers and so you should be able to map them to colors just
>>>>> as you can numerical data. The categorical project on github has an open PR
>>>>> where I'm trying out one approach to tackle the problem, but there are
>>>>> other approaches too. Here's an example of what I'm aiming for
>>>>> http://story645.github.io/jekyll/update/2016/08/22/color.html
>>>>>
>>>>> Please feel free to ask questions.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 25, 2017 12:56 AM, "Kanchana Ranasinghe" <kahnchana at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks so much. I did go through the issues. I will need to
>>>>>> familiarize myself with the layout manager as well. I was also going
>>>>>> through the categorical color project which seems interesting. Could you
>>>>>> share something more about the 'categorical color' project?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With Regards
>>>>>> Kanchana Ranasinghe
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 11:21 PM, Hannah <story645 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd suggest looking through the geometry manager labels (
>>>>>>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues?q=is%3Aopen
>>>>>>> +is%3Aissue+label%3A%22geometry+manager%22), but hopefully a
>>>>>>> developer more familiar with layout manager tasks can chime in.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 5:11 AM, Kanchana Ranasinghe <
>>>>>>> kahnchana at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thank you very much. I did go through the issue tracker. Looking
>>>>>>>> for related issues. I went through a few related to layouts and fonts. If
>>>>>>>> you can guide me to any specific issues well related to this that would be
>>>>>>>> really helpful.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thank you again.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> With Regards
>>>>>>>> Kanchana Ranasinghe
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 7:39 AM, Hannah <story645 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi, please check out the issue tracker at
>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:45 PM, Kanchana Ranasinghe <
>>>>>>>>> kahnchana at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm an electronics and telecommunications engineering student
>>>>>>>>>> from University Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I am interested in the matplotlib
>>>>>>>>>> project Layout Manager.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I have done some work with python and am quite familiar with
>>>>>>>>>> python and regular libraries like numpy, scipy. I have also been involved
>>>>>>>>>> in some machine learning and computer vision related research at
>>>>>>>>>> university, so I am familiar with contraint solvers as well as most common
>>>>>>>>>> AI related algorithms.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I am going through the Cassowary library for now. I couldn't find
>>>>>>>>>> the issues on the mailing list related to this. Could you share with me the
>>>>>>>>>> detailed expectations of this project?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Also do let me know how else I can get involved for now.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thank you.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> With Regards
>>>>>>>>>> Kanchana Ranasinghe
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
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