ploterific

ploterific is a command line program meant for a quick and easy way to plot tabular data from the command line. Meant for quick visualizations, not too customizable.

News

• Version 0.2.1.0 allows the use of the default theme.
• Version 0.2.0.0 changes the color scheme to Set1 and allows an arbitrary number of categories.
• Version 0.1.1.0 supports Trellis plots with --facet!

Installation

git clone https://github.com/GregorySchwartz/ploterific.git
cd ploterific
nix-env -f default.nix -i ploterific

Usage

Based on some tabular data, for instance:

mkdir example
wget -O iris.csv "https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/iris/iris.data"
cat iris.csv | sed "1i sepalLength,sepalWidth,petalLength,petalWidth,class" | ploterific -f "sepalLength:Q" -f "sepalWidth:Q" -c "class:N" -m Circle > example/out.html

Here, each -f denotes the axes in order, with :Q signifying they are quantitative data (N, O, Q, or T for nominal, ordinal, quantitiative, or temporal measurements, respectively). The data is colored by -c, nominal data, with a Circle mark (lists of marks available at https://hackage.haskell.org/package/hvega-0.11.0.1/docs/Graphics-Vega-VegaLite.html#t:Mark). For additional information, see ploterific -h.

Importantly, any observations with feature numbers that cannot be parsed will be thrown out automatically! Also note, if there is any kind of non-Haskell issue (seen by cat out.html), then it is probably due to vega-lite (for instance, having periods in column names will not work), so check vega-lite’s documentation first.