This is the main library for producing 2D visualizations and is one of the oldest scientific computing tools in the Python ecosystem. Although there is an increasing number of libraries for visualization for Python, Matplotlib is still widely used and actually incorporated into the pandas functionality; in addition, other more specialized visualization projects such as Seaborn are based on Matplotlib.
For additional information, please refer to https://matplotlib.org/.
In this book, we will use base matplotlib only when needed, because we will prefer to use higher-level libraries, especially Seaborn and pandas (which includes great functions for plotting). However, since both of these libraries are built on top of matplotlib, we ...
