GSoC 2019 Project [ Rubyplot ] discussion

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][20 June] The plots

Planned progress
Working on the Error bar plot

Progress

  • Improved the blogs

Problems

  • The blog will be completed soon

Plans

  • Complete the Blogs
  • Check box plot

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][21 June] Improvements

Planned progress
Working on Box plot

Progress

  • Passed the tests for box plot
  • Corrected default marker type for draw_markers and the variable for nominal factor
  • Added a hash of lambdas for line types
  • Improved draw_lines and draw_line functions

Problems

Plans

  • Blog update
  • Code review

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][22 June] Code Review

Planned progress
Working on Box plot

Progress

  • Started the code review for first evaluation

Problems

Plans

  • Complete the code review
  • Complete the blogs
  • Work on violin plot

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][23 June] Sunday

Had a weekly meeting with @v0dro. To-do list till Phase 1 evaluation ends:

  1. Finish the Blogs
  2. Implement Ticks
  3. Write documentation and host it at readthedocs (mostly) and the website should update the docs when the code is updated
  4. Leaving violin plot for now as it lacks the frontend
  5. Correcting the overlapping of title and X-axis title of figures having multiple vertical subplots
  6. Determining the opacity for bubble plot
  7. Looking into legend box for bar plot
  8. Correcting the y inversion of subplots in Magick
  9. Correct the frontend of Line plot
  10. Use another library for testing
  11. Implement arrows
  12. Introduce a minimal factor to make the line width of Magick backend same as GR
  13. Test bar plots for multiple bar plots in the same subplot

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][24 June] Evaluation

Planned progress
Working on Violin plot

Progress

  • Not working on Violin plot for now as the frontend is not implemented
  • Improved The scatter plot example blog
  • Corrected the Line plot Frontend

Problems

Plans

  • Working on Blogs
  • Completing the remaining work

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][25 June] Evaluation

Planned progress
Complete Evaluation

Progress

  • Working on Code review

Problems

Plans

  • Complete the blogs
  • Implement ticks

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][26 June] Evaluation

Planned progress
Complete Evaluation

Progress

  • Completed code review
  • decided on the format and what all is to be included in the next blog

Problems

  • User guide for installation of Magick backend is not present.

Plans

  • Complete the blogs
  • Implement ticks

@v0dro I am creating another blog for this which explains the code and the purpose of the functions and the design decisions as well. Link: https://alishdipani.github.io/gsoc2019/2019/06/12/Setting-up-the-ImageMagick-backend/

I will complete this blog and the blog for plots hopefully by Saturday EOD

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][27 June] Evaluation

Planned progress
Complete Evaluation

Progress

  • Worked on the blogs

Problems

Plans

  • Complete the blogs
  • Implement ticks

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][28 June] Evaluation

Planned progress
Complete Evaluation

Progress

Problems

  • I will apply for my visa soon and the appointment for it will be on Tuesday or Wednesday and hence I will be unavailable to work for 2-3 days during that time.

Plans

  • Complete the blogs
  • Implement ticks

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][29 June] Starting multiple plots

Planned progress
Check multi bar plot

Progress

  • Worked on blog
  • Wrote an experimental test for multi bar plot and the output is correct
    data given =
[["Data1", [4, 7, 12], :blue],
 ["Data2", [2, 6, 10], :yellow],
 ["Data3", [3, 8, 11], :red],
 ["Data4", [1, 5, 9], :black]]

Output for GR backend:

Output for Magick backend:

  • Corrected the function for the input of spacing_ratio in bar plot

Problems

  • I will complete the blog in 1-2 days
  • What is the purpose of the stacked_bar plot? is it different than a simple bar plot? @v0dro
  • I saw that there is a test for dot plot but there is no such plot, should dot plot be added? @v0dro
  • Matplotlib allows the user to set the x coordinates, whereas in Rubyplot it is decided by us, should there be an option to take the x values as an input? @v0dro
  • Bar plot does not create legend box (or it is not visible)

Plans

  • Complete the blogs
  • Implement ticks
  • Check multi box plot

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][30 June] Sunday

Planned progress
Check multi box plot

Progress

  • Worked on blogs

Problems

  • Will check the multi box plot in addition to next day’s work.

Plans

  • Complete the blogs
  • Implement ticks
  • Check multi box plot
  • Check multi candle-stick plot

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][1 July] Issues

Planned progress
check multi candle stick plot

Progress

Problems

  • Could not work today due to some personal issues and visa application

Plans

  • Complete the remaining work

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][2 July] Multi plots

Planned progress
Check multi stacked bar plot

Progress

  • Checked and passed tests for multi box plot, outputs:
    boxplot3
    boxplot4
  • Corrected multi candle stick plot, the bug was that it was plotting one candle stick less
  • Checked and passed tests for multi candle stick plot, output:
    candlestick2

Problems

  • Both candle stick and box plot lack legend box
  • Single box plot, candle stick plot, etc. utilise multi plots and hence I will include this in the blog as well, due to which the blog will take some time
  • Both candle stick plot and box plot do not take x values as inputs, but matplotlib has the necessary condition of giving x values as input, should this be incorporated here as well? @v0dro
  • I had not checked stacked bar plot earlier, and hence will check that first and then move to multi stacked bar plot

Plans

  • Work on blogs
  • Check stacked bar plot and multi stacked bar plot
  • Implement ticks

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][3 July] Multi plots

Planned progress
Implement grouped box plot

Progress

  • Since the front end of grouped box plot is not implemented, leaving it for now and focusing on other plots

  • Passed tests for stacked and multi stacked bar plot, outputs:


  • Corrected the y inversion of subplots for Magick backend

  • Added opacity as 0.5 to bubble plot by using drawing circles instead of markers, had to change the front end of bubble plot

  • Changed front end of Circle object to replace border_opacity with fill_opacity

  • Introduced a nominal factor for draw_circle in Magick backend to match the sizes of GR backend

Problems

  • Stacked bar plot lacks legend box
  • GR backend does not implement opacity for draw_circle function

Plans

  • Complete blogs
  • Implement ticks
  • Make a list of plots with examples and problems in them

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][4 July] Ticks

Planned progress
Implement grouped box plot

Progress

  • Looked into the working of ticks

Problems

  • GR backend does not use the input properties and creates ticks in its own way, will discuss this in weekly meeting with @v0dro

Plans

  • Complete blogs
  • Implement ticks
  • Create a list of plots

The bubble plot images

GR:

Magick:

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][5 July] Library review

Planned progress
Checking subplots

Progress

Magick:


  • Added the default value for marker_fill_color for scatter plot in the frontend
  • Added the flag for square axes in the axes frontend
  • Implemented square axes for Magick backend
  • Increased the line width for axes for Magick backend so that it looks better (set the width to 5 pixels)
  • Corrected the spacing ratio function for the bar plot
  • Improved plots for Magick backend, the axes are now plotted above the figures

Problems

  • GR backend lacks the square axes

Meeting summary
To-do list:

  1. Complete the blogs
  2. Implement ticks
  3. Write documentation
  4. Check subplots (done)
  5. Submit a proposal for RubyConf USA
  6. Increase the line width for axes in Magick backend (done)
  7. Draw axes above the figures (done)
  8. Implement rectangular axes (done)
  9. Improve the testing script so that tests for both backends are done in one go
  10. Erase the figures which are out of bounds for Magick backend
  11. Look into legend box for all the multi plots
  12. Take x values as inputs for all the multi plots
  13. Look into spacing for candle stick plot (done) -> @v0dro the spacing is there but it is not that visible if the figure is too big
  14. Create optimized show function such that if write is called just after it then the plotting should not be done again.

Plans

  • Complete blogs
  • Create a list of plots
  • Implement ticks

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][6 July] Saturday

Planned progress
Checking subplots

Progress

  • worked on ticks

Problems

Plans

  • Improve ticks
  • Write blogs
  • Create a list of plots

[RUBYPLOT-GSOC][DAILY][8 July] Show

Planned progress
Implement show function for GR

Progress

  • Focussing on Magick backend and leaving GR backend for now
  • Implemented the show function for Magick backend

Problems

  • The show function is not optimized, I tried optimization by not initialization the figure again but there were some errors which couldn’t be resolved. I will try to resolve the error or find another way for optimization

Plans

  • Optimize the show function
  • Complete the blogs
  • Create a list of plots
  • Implement ticks