adjustText - automatic label placement for `matplotlib`

Inspired by ggrepel package for R/ggplot2 (https://github.com/slowkow/ggrepel)
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Alternative: textalloc https://github.com/ckjellson/textalloc

Brief description

The idea is that often when we want to label multiple points on a graph the text will start heavily overlapping with both other labels and data points. This can be a major problem requiring manual solution. However this can be largely automatized by smart placing of the labels (difficult) or iterative adjustment of their positions to minimize overlaps (relatively easy). This library (well... script) implements the latter option to help with matplotlib graphs. Usage is very straightforward with usually pretty good results with no tweaking (most important is to just make text slightly smaller than default and maybe the figure a little larger). However the algorithm itself is highly configurable for complicated plots.

Getting started

Installation

Should be installable from pypi:

pip install adjustText

Or with conda:

conda install -c conda-forge adjusttext

For the latest version from github:

pip install https://github.com/Phlya/adjustText/archive/master.zip

Documentation

Wiki has some basic introduction, and more advanced usage examples can be found here.

Thanks to Christophe Van Neste @beukueb, adjustText has a simple documentation:
http://adjusttext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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matplotlib	false
numpy	false
scipy	false

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