Class label colours with parallel coordinates

[stangirala]

Problem description

The parallel coordinates function seems to currently assume that the class labels don't have an inherent ordering. I'd like to provide a sort option or a class-to-colour mapping to capture this. My specific use case is situations where the label are quantized buckets and a smooth colour change between buckets make the final plot easy to visualize.

The current function zips the available classes and the colour_values without any sorting.

I've identified where in the current '_parallel_coordinates' function a change should be made and would like to work on this.

Output of pd.show_versions()

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