Allow seaborn color map strings
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- Additional function parameters / changed functionality / changed defaults?
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Allow using seaborn color map strings: https://twitter.com/michaelwaskom/status/1367553033454968834
I think this should be as easy as swapping out mpl.cm.get_cmap for sns.color_palette
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Search the plotting code for uses of mpl.cm.get_cmap and read the surrounding color-map handling. Run the relevant plotting tests, if present, and verify that seaborn color-map strings are accepted while existing color-map inputs continue to work.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- matplotlib, python
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100