Shaun Taylor-Morgan

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Cambridge, UK

Shaun started programming in earnest by simulating burning fusion plasmas in the world's biggest laser system.

He fell in love with Python as a data analysis tool, and has never looked back. Now he wants to turn everything into Python.

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Authored Content

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Concise data plotting in Python with Altair

Altair offers an elegant interface and its own plotting language in a Python libraries

How to write a web service using Python Flask

Style your data plots in Python with Pygal

An introduction one of the more stylish Python plotting libraries.

Using pandas to plot data in Python

Pandas is a hugely popular Python data manipulation library. Learn how to use its API to plot data.

Add interactivity to your Python plots with Bokeh

Plotting in Bokeh is a little more complicated than in some of the other plotting libraries, but there's a payoff for the extra effort.

Simplify data visualization in Python with Plotly

Plotly is a data plotting library with a clean interface designed to allow you to build your own APIs.

Data visualization made simple in Python with Seaborn

Seaborn makes complicated things uncomplicated by giving you a range of plot types that "just work."

Authored Comments

Shaun Taylor-Morgan

1 Jul 2020

Thanks for the link! You're right, four overlayed line plots would have been more readable for this particular data. Personally speaking, bar plots bring me little joy... but I chose the multi-bar example as something that nicely teased out the differences in the different libraries.

Shaun Taylor-Morgan

10 Oct 2019

5 open source Python GUI frameworks

This is a really nice summary of the desktop Python GUI tools. For web GUIs, there are a lot of great open-source options for **running python in the web browser** (that's right, no more JavaScript!!!)

Here's an article (and talk video) where I cover 6 different options, with demos:

https://anvil.works/blog/python-in-the-browser-talk