Figures from Tables with Table (deprecated)

Create Figures from a list of data Tables (upper port) using another Table for configuration (lower port).

Having the full configuration for the figure as a table on an input port allow you to programmatically configure a figure. If you are looking for an eaiser but slightly less powerful way to configure a figure you should instead use one of the nodes Figure (deprecated) or Figures (deprecated) where you can configure the figure in a graphical user interface.

The configuration table consists of one parameter column and one value column. Both column should be of text type. The easiest way to learn how to create a specific figure with this node is to first build the same figure using the node Figure (deprecated) and look at the configuration table that that node produces.

Here is a simple example of a configuration table for a line plot:

Parameters	Values
axes.axes-1.xaxis_position	bottom
axes.axes-1.yaxis_position	left
axes.axes-1.title	Plot title
axes.axes-1.xlabel	The xlabel
axes.axes-1.ylabel	The ylabel
line.line-1.axes	axes-1
line.line-1.xdata	table.col('x').data
line.line-1.ydata	table.col('y').data

Plots

Every line/scatter is addressed with a unique identifier {id}, which can be any string without a ‘.’. A line parameter is constructed as with line.{id}.{property} in the parameter column and the corresponding value in the value column. Every line needs to have at least the ‘xdata’ and ‘ydata’ specified. All line properties, except the ‘ydata’, can also be given on a global level like line.{property}. All properties given on a global level with be copied to all configured lines without overriding locally declared properties.

Currently supported properties are (some properties allow alternative names longname/shortname):

Property	Type
xdata	unicode
ydata	unicode
axes	axes id (see below)
label	unicode
marker	matplotlib marker: o, ., ^, d, etc
markersize	float
markeredgecolor	mpl color (see below)
markeredgewidth	float
markerfacecolor	mpl color (see below)
linestyle	matplotlib line style: -, –, .-, etc
linewidth	float
color	mpl color (see below)
alpha	float [0., 1.]
zorder	number
drawstyle	matplotlib drawstyle: default, steps, etc

Please see the matplotlib documentation for sensible values of the different types.

Example

An example assigning the ‘index’ column as x values and the ‘signal’ column as y values to a line with id ‘line-1’, as well as drawing it in red with a circular marker:

Parameters	Values
line.line-1.xdata	table.col('index').data
line.line-1.ydata	table.col('signal').data
line.line-1.color	red
line.line-1.marker	o

Axes

Axes are defined similarly to lines. All axes are overlaid on top of each other. Every axes also has a unique identifier {id} (without ‘.’). The parameter name is constructed as axes.{id}.{property} on the local level or axes.{property} for global properties, valid for all defined axes.

Property	Type
xaxis_position	bottom, top
yaxis_position	left, right
title	unicode
xlabel	unicode
ylabel	unicode
xlim	str of two comma separated numbers
ylim	str of two comma separated numbers
xscale	linear, log
yscale	linear, log
aspect	auto, equal, float
grid	GRID (see below)
legend	LEGEND (see below)

Grid

Every axes can also have a grid with the following optional properties:

Property	Type
show	bool
color	mpl color (see below)
linestyle	matplotlib line style: -, –, .-, etc
linewidth	float
which	major, minor, both
axis	both, x, y

Legend

Every axes can also have a legend defined with the following optional properties:

Property	Type
show	bool
loc	mpl legend location (e.g. best, upper left)
ncol	int
fontsize	e.g. x-small, medium, x-large, etc
markerfirst	bool
frameon	bool
title	unicode

Example

The example defines two axes, one (id=xy) with the y axis on the left and the other (id=foo) with the y axis on the right while sharing the bottom x axis. Since the xaxis_position is shared between the two axes, it is defined on the global level. For xy, a legend will be shown in the upper left corner, while the foo axes will have a green grid.

Parameters	Values
axes.xaxis_position	bottom
axes.xy.yaxis_position	left
axes.xy.xlabel	The xy xlabel
axes.xy.ylabel	The xy ylabel
axes.xy.legend.show	True
axes.xy.legend.loc	upper left
axes.foo.yaxis	y2
axes.foo.ylabel	The y2 ylabel
axes.foo.grid.show	True
axes.foo.grid.color	green

MPL colors

All properties with mpl colors values expect a string with either a hex color (with or without extra alpha channel), 3 or 4 comma separated integers for the RGBA values (range [0, 255]), 3 or 4 comma separated floats for the RGBA values (range [0., 1.]) or a matplotlib color name (e.g. r, red, blue, etc.).

Input ports:

input:

[table]

Input data

config:

table

Configuration

Output ports:

figure:

[figure]

Output figure

Configuration:

Parameters: (parameters)

The column containing the parameter names.

Values: (values)

The column containing the parameter values.

class node_old_figure.FiguresFromTablesWithTable