# numeric_scale

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        <td style="text-align: left; border-style: hidden">*function*  of [dascore.viz._lanes](`dascore.viz._lanes`)</td>
        <td style="text-align: right; border-style: hidden">[source](https://github.com/DASDAE/dascore/blob/dev/dascore/viz/_lanes.py#L181-L207)</td>
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<b>numeric_scale</b>(<br>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;values
,<br>
    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;cmap_name
 = viridis,<br>
)


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Return (cmap, norm, ticks) for a column of numbers.

A handful of distinct values is a set of categories which happen to
be numbered, so it gets one color each and a stepped bar reading at
the values themselves. Anything more is a quantity, and ramps.