Seaborn: v0.12.0b1 Release

This is the first beta release for seaborn v0.12, a major update introducing an entirely new interface along with numerous features, enhancements, and fixes for existing functionality.

To install for testing, run

pip install seaborn==0.12.0b1

Changes from the final alpha release:

Objects interface

• Improve tick label defaults and customization (#2877)
  • Add Scale.label interface for formatting tick labels
  • Fix a bug where unshared axes would use the same locator
  • Default to scientific notation for log scale ticks
  • Default to log-spaced ticks with symlog scale
  • Shorten transform parameter name to trans
  • Simplify internal type structure
• Allow suppression of legend for individual layers (#2834)

Function interface

• Add new errorbar API to pointplot and barplot (#2866)
• Add width parameter to barplot (#2860)
• Add orient parameter to lineplot (#2854)
• Allow histplot to draw discrete histograms with step or poly marks (#2859)
• Downgrade exception in relational plots with palette of incorrect length to a warning (#2856)
• Use alpha from point mark for error bars in regplot (#2853)
• Improve user-friendliness of jointplot (#2863)
• Preserve upper left y axis label in pointplot with corner=True and diag_kind=None (#2850)
• Improve support for anonymous data objects in relplot (#2846)
• Fix histplot dodged bar widths with log scale (#2849)
• Fix hue_order as a subset in scatterplot (#2848)
• Fix several bugs in the new categorical scatterplot features (#2845)