Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static animated and interactive visualizations in python.
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It provides an object oriented api for embedding plots into applications using general purpose gui toolkits like tkinter wxpython qt or gtk.
Plots enable us to visualize data in a pictorial or graphical representation.
It s a shortcut string notation described in the notes section below.
Matplotlib is a plotting library for the python programming language and its numerical mathematics extension numpy.
Plot x y fmt data none kwargs plot x y fmt x2 y2 fmt2 kwargs the coordinates of the points or line nodes are given by x y.
However matplotlib is also a massive library and getting a plot to look just right is often achieved through trial and error.
The optional parameter fmt is a convenient way for defining basic formatting like color marker and linestyle.
Matplotlib makes easy things easy and hard things possible.
Using one liners to generate basic plots in matplotlib is fairly simple but skillfully commanding the remaining 98 of the library can be daunting.