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Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

By : Srinivasa Rao Poladi, Nikhil Borkar
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Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

By: Srinivasa Rao Poladi, Nikhil Borkar

Overview of this book

Matplotlib provides a large library of customizable plots, along with a comprehensive set of backends. Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook is your hands-on guide to exploring the world of Matplotlib, and covers the most effective plotting packages for Python 3.7. With the help of this cookbook, you'll be able to tackle any problem you might come across while designing attractive, insightful data visualizations. With the help of over 150 recipes, you'll learn how to develop plots related to business intelligence, data science, and engineering disciplines with highly detailed visualizations. Once you've familiarized yourself with the fundamentals, you'll move on to developing professional dashboards with a wide variety of graphs and sophisticated grid layouts in 2D and 3D. You'll annotate and add rich text to the plots, enabling the creation of a business storyline. In addition to this, you'll learn how to save figures and animations in various formats for downstream deployment, followed by extending the functionality offered by various internal and third-party toolkits, such as axisartist, axes_grid, Cartopy, and Seaborn. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create high-quality customized plots and deploy them on the web and on supported GUI applications such as Tkinter, Qt 5, and wxPython by implementing real-world use cases and examples.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Scatter plot

In this recipe, we will learn how to plot a scatter plot in 3D. We will use the Iris dataset, which has three distinct clusters, for this example. We have seen it in 2D several times in previous chapters, so let's see how it looks in 3D.

We will also learn how to create an animated 3D plot using the init_view method that we learned in the preceding recipe. For this, we need to use any of the backends, since animation does not work with the inline display %matplotlib inline.

Getting ready

Set the desired backend:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('tkAgg')

Import the required libraries:

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
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