Matplotlib is a plotting library for the Python programming language, where it produces 2D plots
to render visualization and it helps in exploring the data sets. The function matplotlib.pyplot is a
collection of command style functions that make matplotlib work like MATLAB.
In order to start using the library functions of matplotlib, we need to include the library as
follows.
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
Let’s now understand the different graphs used for data exploration and the methods to generate
them using Python code.
We shall use the ‘iris’ data set, a very popular data set in the machine learning world. This
data set consists of three different types of iris flower, such as Setosa, ...
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