On: How to Generate FiveThirtyEight Graphs in Python

[wodenokoto]

I'd love to see those 10 lines!

[minimaxir → wodenokoto]

I have a R/ggplot2 data visualization tutorial which gets a similar style in about 10 lines: http://minimaxir.com/2017/08/ggplot2-web/

[mircealex → minimaxir]

You're not adding a title, a subtitle, a signature bar. You're not bolding the line at y = 0, you're using block-style legends instead of adding customized labels. All these will require extra code.

Your example is potentially misleading in this discussion for anyone who won't bother to go through that article you linked to.

I'm not saying you can't do the graphs in under 10 lines of code, I'm just saying that your example totally misses the point.

[minimaxir → mircealex]

The key word is "similar." (and yes I do add a titles/subtitle bar/caption)

[mircealex → minimaxir]

Apologies, I only examined the first couple of graphs after the first "FiveThirtyEight" keyword, for which you don't have titles, subtitles etc.

The graphs on your article look really nice, but they are quite far from resembling FTE's, IMO.