projects.mako.cc - matplotlib-cdsw/blob - logscatterplot.py

   1 """Make a scatterplot of male and female articles with logarithmic birth year axis scaling."""
   2 import wikibios
   3 from matplotlib import pyplot
   4
   5 figure = pyplot.figure()
   6 axes = figure.gca()
   7
   8 firstedits_male = wikibios.columns_male['firstedit']
   9 years_ago_male = [2015 - y for y in wikibios.columns_male['birth_year']]
  10 firstedits_female = wikibios.columns_female['firstedit']
  11 years_ago_female = [2015 - y for y in wikibios.columns_female['birth_year']]
  12
  13 axes.scatter(firstedits_male, years_ago_male, alpha=0.1, c='green', edgecolors='None', label='Male')
  14 axes.scatter(firstedits_female, years_ago_female, alpha=0.1, c='orange', edgecolors='None', label='Female')
  15 axes.set_xlabel('Article Date')
  16 axes.set_ylabel('Years Ago')
  17 axes.set_yscale('log')
  18 axes.legend()
  19 figure.savefig('logscatter.png')