Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to visualize a, b results of x, y variables

Thanks for all the ideas.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Joy merwin monteiro <joy...@gm...>
wrote:

> Maybe you could plot the ratio? That should give you rainfall per degree
> Celsius.
> On 9 Jul 2015 20:11, "Jonno" <jon...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> I was thinking of doing that or having 2 surface plots but I think it
>> would be visually quite confusing.
>> I was trying to think of an example since I'm sure someone has come up
>> with a nice way to display this kind of data.
>> Imagine if the data was average temperature (a) and average rainfall (b)
>> for a region in the world (lat/long = x,y). The goal is to display the data
>> such that it's obvious where the locations are that have closest to the
>> ideal temp/rain combination.
>> How would you go about that?
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 12:28 AM, Sterling Smith <sm...@fu...>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In the x,y plane, could you overlay contours of a with contours of b?
>>> -Sterling
>>>
>>> On Jul 8, 2015, at 8:19PM, Jonno <jon...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I have a bunch of experimental data points each of which has 2
>>> variables (x,y) and 2 results (a,b). Each pair or x,y values produces a
>>> pair of a,b resultant values.
>>> > There is a single optimal pair of a,b values and I'd like to figure
>>> out a way to illustrate the data to show the relationship between each x,y
>>> pair and how close each a,b pair is to the ideal.
>>> > I'm thinking about a dual surface/contour plot with 2 different
>>> z-axes. Ideally I would center both z-axes at the ideal values. I don't
>>> know if this is possible. Might be kinda messy.
>>> >
>>> > Any other thoughts? I'm sure there must be other examples where this
>>> is a problem.
>>> >
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