Sublevels in legends of plots
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- Additional function parameters / changed functionality / changed defaults?
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Hi! It would be great if Scanpy could create sublevels of annotation like the the attached figure 3D of the seurat v4 paper. This would make legends clearer in cases where you have different subtypes of T cells for example.
For instance the color argument could take as an input a dictionary with the label categories.
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Research direction
Start by examining Scanpy's existing sc.pl plotting entry points and how the color argument currently handles label categories. Compare the requested sublevel legend behavior with the linked example, then define what dictionary input should mean and how completion would be verified across relevant plots.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data-visualization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100