3. A Deep Dive into Matplotlib

Overview

This chapter describes the fundamentals of Matplotlib and teaches you how to create visualizations using the built-in plots that are provided by the library. Specifically, you will create various visualizations such as bar plots, pie charts, radar plots, histograms, and scatter plots through various exercises and activities. You will also learn basic skills such as loading, saving, plotting, and manipulating the color scale of images. You will also be able to customize your visualization plots and write mathematical expressions using TeX.

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we focused on various visualizations and identified which visualization is best suited to show certain information for a given ...

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