python3 script to quickly plot tabulated data using matplotlib

Installation and usage

1. Install matplotlib for python3
2. Put the script somewhere in your PATH
3. See speedplot.py --help for detailed usage

For example to plot the newest sea level curve of the Colorado Sea level group in a svg file use: wget -O - http://sealevel.colorado.edu/files/2016_rel4/sl_ns_global.txt | speedplot.py -s 1 -x years -y "mm of sea level" -t "Global mean sea level from CU sea level Research group" -o GMSL.svg

which will result in something like this:

Things to do

• Customized colorschemes?
• Plot markers, errorbars
• Adding subplots
• Exchange deprecated optparse for argparse