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Visualization tool for pathways data
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Redo the color scheme for all charts #5

Open wenzeslaus opened 5 years ago

wenzeslaus commented 5 years ago

The charts should have better color scheme. The temporal charts have colors too close to each other or not prominent enough. The doughnut chars are likely not color blind friendly. However, with that we also need to consider that brightness may convey importance, but all categories here are of the same importance.

mshukuno commented 5 years ago

We can define color in /app/config.json. Please feel free to modify applicable color for the disposition code. I am using the default color scheme for pie charts. If you have a color scheme for the pie chart, please let me know. I will add it to config.json.

mshukuno commented 5 years ago

I understand your concern that providing charts that everybody understands. This issue is related to #9. We need to come up with 13 color blind friendly colors, but this might not be readable for everybody. I tested the colors for six grouped disposition code using Coblis. It was difficult enough to come up with six different colors (ending up using dash lines also) so finding 13 color blind friendly colors will be very challenging. Plotly provides mouse-over tip by default. It might not be ideal, but I think it provides information that readers need to know. What do you think?