Given the focus on actual development of the PySlopegraph tool in most of the blog posts of late, folks may be wondering why an infosec/inforisk guy is obsessing so much on a tool and not talking security. Besides the fixation on filling a void and promoting an underused visualization tool, I do believe there is… Continue reading
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Slopegraphs in Python – Exploring Binning/Rounding
One of the last items for the 1.0 release is support for multiple columns of data. That will require some additional refactoring, so I’ve been procrastinating by exploring the recent “fudging” discovery. Despite claims to the contrary on other sites, there are more folks playing with slopegraphs than you might imagine. The inspiration for today’s… Continue reading
Slopegraphs in Python – Slope Colors
As the codebase gets closer to the 1.0 stretch we now have the addition of slope colors for when values go up/down or remain constant between points. The code still only handles two columns of data, but the intent is for each segment to also be colored appropriately (up/down/same) in a multi-column layout. I was… Continue reading
Slopegraphs in Python – More Output Tweaks
The best way to explain this release will be to walk you through an updated configuration file: { "label_font_family" : "Palatino","label_font_size" : "9", "header_font_family" : "Palatino","header_font_size" : "10", "x_margin" : "20","y_margin" : "30", "line_width" : "0.5", "slope_length" : "150", "labels" : [ "1970", "1979" ], "header_color" : "000000","background_color" : "FFFFFF","label_color" : "111111","value_color" : "999999","slope_color" : "AAAAAA", "value_format_string" : "%2d", "input" : "receipts.csv","output" : "receipts","format"… Continue reading
Slopegraphs in Python – The Great Refactor
Despite being on holiday, I had a spare hour to refactor the code (@mrshrbrmstr was joining the 1% in the hotel spa). It’s up on github and now sports a spiffy JSON-format config file. You now must execute the slopegraph.py script with a “–config FILENAME” argument. The configuration file lets you specify the “theme” as… Continue reading
Slopegraphs In Python – colors, fonts & alignment
On the heels of last evening’s release of Slopegraphs in Python post comes some minor tweaks: Complete alignment control of labels & and values Colors (for background, lines, labels & values) — I picked a random pattern from Adobe’s Kuler A font change (to prove width calculations work) …and a new example slopegraph: As promised,… Continue reading
Slopegraphs in Python
(NOTE: You can keep up with progress best at github, but can always search on “slopegraph” here or just hit the tag page: “slopegraph” regularly) I’ve been a bit obsessed with slopegraphs (a.k.a “Tufte table-chart”) of late and very dissatisfied with the lack of tools to make this particular visualization tool more prevalent. While my… Continue reading