Book Image

Mastering Matplotlib 2.x

By : Benjamin Walter Keller
Book Image

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)

Statistics with boxes and violins

This section describes how to make box plots and outliers within the data and how to customize the appearance of plots.

Making box plots to show the interquartile ranges and the outliers

We will begin by importing the data. Start by generating normal Gaussian distributions with a couple of different properties, as follows:

# Generate some Normal distributions with different properties
rands1 = np.random.normal(size=500)
rands2 = np.random.normal(scale=2, size=500)
rands3 = np.random.normal(loc=1, scale=0.5, size=500)
gaussians = (rands1, rands2, rands3)
  1. Make some box plots out of this data. Hence, by making a box plot of Gaussians, we can comment to suppress the output. Here, we can see that...