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by klmadfejno 2204 days ago
> Seaborn is essentially dead as far as I can tell with few changes in the last 2-3 years. There are even parameters that continue to be non-functional

https://seaborn.pydata.org/whatsnew.html

Seaborn has received a couple updates this year. Not sure what you mean by can't control figure size either. The ways to do so are inconsistent, but they're there.

> I'd love to get feedback and happy to take detailed criticism.

I like your syntax a lot. This page isn't a good way to show it. Seaborn's gallery page is excellent, even if redundant at times. I would dedicate more time to creating more easily useable docs like that. Docs are almost everything when it comes to charting.

Also need to see stuff on how to control aesthetic things like color, outlines, style, etc.

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Technically, there was a new "major" release with version 0.10, but it was just some bug fixes and the same as 0.9.1. The last release with anything new was in July of 2018. Given the rate of the last several releases, I don't expect much to happen for a while, thus "essentially dead".

You cannot control axes plot figure size from seaborn directly. You have to access the figure from the axes (which most people don't know how to do) or create the figure first by importing matplotlib. Really annoying for those that just want to analyze data quickly. Grid plots have the ability to adjust figure size, but return a seaborn object and not a matplotlib figure.

Agreed, docs need to get better. Better datasets, a gallery, etc... I've only spent a week on this, so there will be a lot of improvements in the future.

Hey for what it's worth I think this is really impressive for only a week!