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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)

Interactive plots in the Jupyter Notebook

This section describes the installation and enabling of the ipywidgets module and how to use and customize the different widgets.

How to install and enable the ipywidgets module

Before getting started, we will have to install ipywidgets. We will use the pip install ipywidgets command to do this. After this has been successfully installed, we need to enable the extension within the Jupyter Notebook. To do that, use the jupyter nb extension enable - -py widgetsnbextension command, which will enable the widgets to interact with the Jupyter Notebook.

Begin as usual by importing and setting up the Matplotlib environment, including the ipywidgets module, the interactive, fixed, and interact_manual...