How to force users correctly label plot attributes

[vladdez]

As we understand from the literature and practice, people easily forget about labeling. We promised in our paper that we will support users and nudge them to do that. So we should! Because it is our signature move.

What could be done:

1. Defaults. We automatically set smt like: xlabel = "Time [s]". But what if it is not time and not seconds. How many users would be aware enough to change it?
2. Warnings. What is we just put a warning like "Please dont forget to labels for xvalue, yvalue, colorbar. To do that just specify XYZ". Especially that important for uncertainty indicators: standart error vs SEM. We can also make it conditional: if user specified xvlaue it will be gone out of warning (maybe overkill). Or it could be silenced with some flag.

I think this very important problem, which definitely should be adressed.

[behinger]

this is a very difficult question and I dont know. But I'm 100% sure there are computer science papers on this problem.

1. you saw it today, users are not aware
2. If we go the second route, definitely make the warnings conditional.