Advanced plots – a preview

To give a taste of what's to come, let's start up a matplotlib IPython Notebook and look at an example. You will need to download the example from a GitHub repository first:

$ git clone https://github.com/masteringmatplotlib/preview.git
$ cd preview

You only need to do the following in order to bootstrap an environment with all the notebook dependencies and start up the notebook server:

$ make

This will do several things for you automatically, some of which are as follows:

  • Clone a support repository holding various include files
  • Create a Python virtual environment
  • Install matplotlib and other scientific computing Python modules into this virtual environment
  • Start an IPython Notebook server that runs on local host
  • Open a browser ...

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