Preselection: Tool for making data/MC plots

[sam-may]

Implement script (e.g. make_plots.py) that takes a dataframe (output from the looper) as input and makes various plots.

Ideal configurable options:

• Input dataframe
• Type of plot: data/MC plot OR shape comparison
• Linear vs. log axis (hopefully the script also calculates reasonable axis ranges)
• Include/don't include ratio pad
• List of variables to make plots for. For this, a json file is my first idea at making this easily configurable. Can contain a list of variables along with relevant data for each (binning, axis limits, additional text to print on plot, etc)

Configurable options for data/MC plots:

• List of samples to consider as backgrounds (plot these as stacked histograms)
• List of samples to consider as signals (plot these as solid lines)
• Normalization of background: scale by lumi or scale total background to data

I know there are many different plotting packages already out there, and I am relatively ignorant about them, so please comment if you have one in mind that is the best/most user-friendly/etc. These would probably be a good starting point for the script and might save a majority of the work.

[mhl0116]

I suggest we start from this:
https://github.com/aminnj/pdroot

[bsathian]

okay I'll take this task up. I need a plotter script for the BDT input variables anyways

[sam-may]

@bsathian plotter looks nice, can you make a dir plots_and_tables under Preselection and put relevant files there?

[bsathian]

Okay. I'll do it ASAP

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[bsathian]

Done. Please review and close the issue if things look good