AMLD 2024 Feedback

[Kislovskiy]

• Provide more directed guidance in the beginning to set the environment and detailed instructions for completing the first exercise.
• Add a better description of the chartcrafthub package and why people need to install it.
• The workshop description should mention that it is for people with experience with Python, Matplotlib, or any other visualization library.

[Kislovskiy]

[IDEA] For the next iteration of the workshop, it's better to follow TDD; each exercise contains a test function that is either green or red.

[Kislovskiy]

[EPFL Library] I found the book "Mastering matplotlib" by Duncan M. McGregor quite good, even though it was published in 2015 and covers matplotlib 1.4 vs 3.x in 2024. At the beginning of the book, the author defines an "intermediate" user as one who has some knowledge:

• Installation of matplotlib in multiple environments
• Creation of essential to moderately complicated matplotlib plots
• Basic matplotlib APIs, styling, backends, and customizations
• Uising matplotlib objects, subplots, and overlays.
• Advanced third-party tools such as Seaborn, Pandas, ggplot
• Completed reading some of the books: ...

Interesting reference to modulefinder to examine imports.

I recommend myself to take a look into it before doing any other workshop on the topic.

[Kislovskiy]

Also this is relevant: https://github.com/rougier/matplotlib-tutorial