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Plotting Practice

Small lessons on charts, using a synthetic weather dataset anyone can download.

Notes

Shorter notes kept alongside the lessons.

  • Timeouts and budgets for chart rendering

    · tooling

    Rendering 26 000 points per station is quick; rendering them as individual markers is not. Aggregate first, plot second, and give the notebook cell a time budge

  • About the synthetic data

    · dataset

    Temperature is a yearly cosine, a daily cosine and smoothed noise. Humidity follows temperature inversely; pressure is a random walk pulled toward 1013 hPa. Non