Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

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Let's take a real-life example of using the combination of a text box and mathematical symbols.

Let's generate random numbers for a normal distribution and plot a histogram. Then let's embed the descriptive statistics of this histogram as a text box on the plot. The following code block does this for us:

1. Import the required libraries:

import numpy as npimport matplotlib.pyplot as pltfrom scipy.stats import kurtosis, skew

2. Set the seed for repeatability, define the figure with size and axes:

np.random.seed(19681211)fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8,5))

3. Define the data for a histogram, and compute the descriptive statistics for this distribution:

x = np.random.normal(25, 5, 25000)mu = x.mean()median = np.median(x)sigma ...