The new default colormap for matplotlib is called “viridis” and it’s great!
It’s probably not news to anyone in data visualization that the most-used “jet” colormap (sic) (sometimes referred to as “rainbow”) is a bad choice for many reasons. Doesn’t work when printed black & white Doesn’t work well for colourblind people Not linear in colour space, so it’s hard to estimate numerical values from the resulting image The Matlab team recently developed a new colormap called “parula” but amazingly because Matlab is commercially-licensed software no-one else is allowed to use it!...