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Matplotlib for Python Developers - Second Edition

By : Aldrin Yim, Claire Chung, Allen Yu
Book Image

Matplotlib for Python Developers - Second Edition

By: Aldrin Yim, Claire Chung, Allen Yu

Overview of this book

Python is a general-purpose programming language increasingly being used for data analysis and visualization. Matplotlib is a popular data visualization package in Python used to design effective plots and graphs. This is a practical, hands-on resource to help you visualize data with Python using the Matplotlib library. Matplotlib for Python Developers, Second Edition shows you how to create attractive graphs, charts, and plots using Matplotlib. You will also get a quick introduction to third-party packages, Seaborn, Pandas, Basemap, and Geopandas, and learn how to use them with Matplotlib. After that, you’ll embed and customize your plots in third-party tools such as GTK+3, Qt 5, and wxWidgets. You’ll also be able to tweak the look and feel of your visualization with the help of practical examples provided in this book. Further on, you’ll explore Matplotlib 2.1.x on the web, from a cloud-based platform using third-party packages such as Django. Finally, you will integrate interactive, real-time visualization techniques into your current workflow with the help of practical real-world examples. By the end of this book, you’ll be thoroughly comfortable with using the popular Python data visualization library Matplotlib 2.1.x and leveraging its power to build attractive, insightful, and powerful visualizations.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

A brief introduction to Qt 5 and PyQt 5


Qt is a cross-platform application development framework widely used for graphical programs (GUI) and also for non-GUI tools.

Qt was developed by Trolltech (now owned by Nokia), and it's probably best known for being the foundation of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) for Linux.

The Qt toolkit is a collection of classes made to simplify the creation of programs. Qt is more than just a GUI toolkit. It includes components for abstractions of network sockets, threads, Unicode, regular expressions, SQL databases, SVG, OpenGL, and XML. It also has a fully functional web browser, help system, multimedia framework, and rich collection of GUI widgets.

Qt is available on several platforms, particularly Unix/Linux, Windows, macOS X, and also some embedded devices. As it uses native APIs of the platform to render the Qt controls, applications developed with Qt have a look and feel that fits the running environment (without looking like something alien in it).

Though...