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Mastering Matplotlib 2.x

By : Benjamin Walter Keller
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Mastering Matplotlib 2.x

By: Benjamin Walter Keller

Overview of this book

In this book, you’ll get hands-on with customizing your data plots with the help of Matplotlib. You’ll start with customizing plots, making a handful of special-purpose plots, and building 3D plots. You’ll explore non-trivial layouts, Pylab customization, and more about tile configuration. You’ll be able to add text, put lines in plots, and also handle polygons, shapes, and annotations. Non-Cartesian and vector plots are exciting to construct, and you’ll explore them further in this book. You’ll delve into niche plots and visualize ordinal and tabular data. In this book, you’ll be exploring 3D plotting, one of the best features when it comes to 3D data visualization, along with Jupyter Notebook, widgets, and creating movies for enhanced data representation. Geospatial plotting will also be explored. Finally, you’ll learn how to create interactive plots with the help of Jupyter. Learn expert techniques for effective data visualization using Matplotlib 3 and Python with our latest offering -- Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook
Table of Contents (7 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to add lines, boxes, texts, different kinds of shapes, and polygons, as well as arrows in descriptions with annotate. We also focused on the viewer's attention on whatever kinds of data the plot is showing to make the insights.

In the next chapter, we will learn about special-purpose plots, which you can use for different kinds of data that haven't fallen into the sorts of plots we've seen so far.