openscienceplot_matplotlib

The goal of this library is to allow you to share the raw-data from a (scientific) plot in an open way. In particular:

• You choose the data that matters to you, and you choose how you organise the data-file that you share.
• Only open (and free!) data file-types are used.
• Where possible, the amount of code you need to create the data-file is minimal.

A long-term gaol is to have similar libraries for different languages (e.g. Python/matplotlib, Matlab, ...) and different file-type (e.g. HDF5, yaml, JSON, ...) to allow sharing data is a custom but still somewhat unified way.

Usage

Please consider this minimal example

Store to HDF5

import numpy as np
import h5py
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import openscienceplot_matplotlib as osp

with h5py.File('mydata.hdf5', 'w') as data:

    fig, ax = plt.subplots()

    x = np.linspace(0, 1, 1000)
    y = x ** 2

    handle = ax.plot(x, y, color='r', label='myplot')
    osp.write_h5py(data, 'data', handle)
    
    data['by'] = osp.info()

    fig.savefig('myplot.pdf')
    plt.close(fig)