Confusing heatmap data input

[andrewkhardy]

I find the documentation for def heatmap(data, scale, vmin=None, vmax=None, cmap=None, ax=None, scientific=False, style='triangular', colorbar=True, permutation=None, use_rgba=False, cbarlabel=None, cb_kwargs=None): quite confusing.

If I have a dictionary (or Pandas dataframe) with four columns, where the first three are i,j,k such that i+j+k = scale and the fourth is my colormap, it seems there should be an obvious way to input heatmap(i,j,k, data) like how Plottly does for contour plots. However, I don't see how to format my dictionary to match the requirements of

data: dictionary
        A dictionary mapping the i, j polygon to the heatmap color, where
        i + j + k = scale.

[andrewkhardy]

Why did you close this?

[marcharper]

(1) There are several explicit examples in the documentation / examples notebook on how to input data to the heatmap functions
(2) This is the wrong place to ask for help about transforming data from pandas dataframes to other formats, try stack overflow or just searching
(3) There's already another issue requesting essentially this (#109)