Glossary

aesthetic

aesthetics

When used as a noun, we use an aesthetic as a graphical property that is being used to encode data.

Moreover, within arviz_plots aesthetics can actually be any arbitrary keyword argument accepted by the plotting function being used.

aesthetic mapping

aesthetic mappings

We use aesthetic mapping to indicate the relation between the aesthetics in our plot and properties in our dataset.

figure

Highest level data visualization structure. All plotted elements are contained within a figure or its children.

EABM

Acronym for Exploratory Analysis of Bayesian Models. We use this concept to reference all the tasks within a Bayesian workflow outside of building and fitting or sampling a model. For more details, see the EABM virtual book

plot

plots

Area (or areas) where the data will be plotted into. A figure can contain multiple faceted plots.

visual

visuals

Graphical component or element added by arviz-plots

faceting

faceted

Generate multiple similar plot elements with each of them referring to a specific property or value of the data.

Equivalences with library specific objects

arviz-plots name	matplotlib	bokeh	plotly
figure	figure	layout	Figure
plot	axes/subplot	figure	-[1]
visual	artist	glyph	trace

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[1]

In plotly there is no specific object to represent a plot.

Instead, when adding visuals one can choose to add a visual to all plots in the figure, or give the row/col indexes, or specify a subset of plots on which to add the visual.