Glossary#
- aesthetic#
- aesthetics#
When used as a noun, we use an aesthetic as a graphical property that is being used to encode data.
Moreover, within
arviz_plotsaesthetics can actually be any arbitrary keyword argument accepted by the plotting function being used.- aesthetic mapping#
- aesthetic mappings#
We use aesthetic mapping to indicate the relation between the aesthetics in our plot and properties in our dataset.
- chart#
Highest level data visualization structure. All plotted elements are contained within a chart or its children.
- plot#
- plots#
Area (or areas) where the data will be plotted into. A chart can contain multiple facetted plots.
- artist#
- artists#
Visual element added by
arviz-plots- facetting#
- facetted#
Generate multiple similar plot elements with each of them referring to a specific property or value of the data.
Equivalences with library specific objects#
arviz-plots name |
matplotlib |
bokeh |
|---|---|---|
chart |
figure |
layout |
plot |
axes/subplot |
figure |
artist |
artist |
glyph |