This could be difficult, considering programmatically-created figures are naturally going to have more formatting issues than those made with conscious decisions reflecting the actual data, but even so, the output of the plotting functions could be significantly improved. It might actually make sense to branch this lib and try to re-implement it using ggplot's python bindings or something. It makes much more attractive plots right out the gate. However, matplotlib can also use the latex formatting engine...
This could be difficult, considering programmatically-created figures are naturally going to have more formatting issues than those made with conscious decisions reflecting the actual data, but even so, the output of the plotting functions could be significantly improved. It might actually make sense to branch this lib and try to re-implement it using ggplot's python bindings or something. It makes much more attractive plots right out the gate. However, matplotlib can also use the latex formatting engine...