mdolab
More flexible data input
Description of feature
Currently, I believe all the data inputted must share the same x value, which is rather limiting. I would like to be able to plot arbitrary x-y pairs (perhaps with an identifier that can be used as a legend item) on subplots.
For example, the following data structure might be able to make two subplots, the top one containing two lines and the bottom one a single line. These subplots share the same x axis/label, but have separate y-axis labels ("Lift" and "Drag"). The user can optionally add legends to the line (e.g. "Composite" or "Metallic").
data = OrderedDict(
{
"Lift": [
{"Time (s)": np.ones(5), "Composite": np.ones(5)},
{"Time (s)": np.ones(3), "Metallic": np.ones(3)},
],
"Drag": [
{"Time (s)": np.ones(2), "Composite": np.ones(2)},
],
}
)
Does this make sense? Are there better data formats available? We also want to take care of the simple case where all the lines share the same x values, but maybe it's not too bad to ask the user to provide the same array a bunch of times?
