Chapter 3. Drawing Your First Plots and Customizing Them
In this chapter, we will go into a lot more detail and present most of the possibilities of matplotlib. We will cover the following points:
- Defining plot types – bar, line, and stacked charts
- Drawing simple sine and cosine plots
- Defining axis lengths and limits
- Defining plot line styles, properties, and format strings
- Setting ticks, labels, and grids
- Adding legends and annotations
- Moving spines to the center
- Making histograms
- Making bar charts with error bars
- Making pie charts count
- Plotting with filled areas
- Making stacked plots
- Drawing scatter plots with colored markers
Introduction
Although we have already drawn our first plots using matplotlib, we didn't go into the details about how they work, how ...
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