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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)

Plotting with 3D axes

We will begin by importing numpy, matplotlib, and pyplot, as shown here:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib as mpl
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib notebook
# Set up figure size and DPI for screen demo
plt.rcParams['figure.figsize'] = (6,4)
plt.rcParams['figure.dpi'] = 150

How to add 3D axes to a figure

We will use the Matplotlib inline magic in Jupyter Notebook to create our plotting setup. Begin by making a new figure and add some axes to this figure. Add a subplot, as shown in the following code, along with the projection= '3D' keyword argument:

# Make a Axes3D
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111, projection='3d...