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		jabl on Feb 6, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Figuring out the best place to live in Helsinki Nice. Nitpick: Rainbow (jet) color maps can be confusing. Better to use a perceptually uniform one such as viridis, see e.g. https://bids.github.io/colormap/

elsherbini on Feb 6, 2017 [–]

And if you don't like the green, you can use different flavors of cubehelix family color spaces[0].

[0] https://jiffyclub.github.io/palettable/cubehelix/

[1] http://www.ifweassume.com/2013/05/cubehelix-or-how-i-learned...

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