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SciPy Recipes

By : V Kishore Ayyadevara, Ruben Oliva Ramos
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SciPy Recipes

By: V Kishore Ayyadevara, Ruben Oliva Ramos

Overview of this book

With the SciPy Stack, you get the power to effectively process, manipulate, and visualize your data using the popular Python language. Utilizing SciPy correctly can sometimes be a very tricky proposition. This book provides the right techniques so you can use SciPy to perform different data science tasks with ease. This book includes hands-on recipes for using the different components of the SciPy Stack such as NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, and pandas, among others. You will use these libraries to solve real-world problems in linear algebra, numerical analysis, data visualization, and much more. The recipes included in the book will ensure you get a practical understanding not only of how a particular feature in SciPy Stack works, but also of its application to real-world problems. The independent nature of the recipes also ensure that you can pick up any one and learn about a particular feature of SciPy without reading through the other recipes, thus making the book a very handy and useful guide.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Object-oriented graph creation using Artist objects

Up to this point, we have used Matplotlib's high-level functions, such as plot(), to create graphs. In this section, we will show how to use objects of type Artist to draw arbitrary shapes in a plot.

In Matplotlib, every plot element is an object from the Artist class. There are two kinds of Artist objects:

  • Containers are objects designed to contain other graphic elements. The most important types of container are Figure and Axes objects.
  • Primitives represent elements that can be directly drawn in a container. These include objects of type Line2D, Patch, and Text, for example.

In the next recipe, we will see how to use Matplotilib's Artist interface to draw general shapes in a figure.

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