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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)

Making movies

This section describes how to generate animations to make plots along with customizing the animation frame rate, speed, and repetitions.

How to generate animations to make plots that update themselves

Let's begin by importing the necessary functions and use the Matplotlib Notebook interactive backend. We will also import the FuncAnimation method from Matplotlib.animation.

Start by making the standard basic sine plot. We have also added a function that changes the Y data by moving it over to the first argument. We will now use the func.animation method. As we call the func.animation method with the figure and our update method as the two arguments, we get a nice animation of the sine wave:

# Basic FuncAnimation...