I have been struggling how to plot the separating hyperplane of an SVM (a One-class SVM in my case) in a 3D space using matplotlib. There was no apparent way how to convert the decision function output into something that one of the 3D plotting functions could deal with. Fortunately I found a solution which I am going to share in case someone wants to do the same. ...
I am using matplotlib a lot for my data analysis tasks and most things work as I expect them to do. One thing that I was missing so far for interactive use was the ability to focus an individual subplot and temporarily let it fill the whole screen for deeper inspection of this plot. In case of multiple subplots, with the standard GUI elements you can zoom and move around inside each subplot (without changing their geometry), but not focus one of them individually. Therefore I came up with the following solution: ...