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Mastering Matplotlib

You're reading from   Mastering Matplotlib A practical guide that takes you beyond the basics of matplotlib and gives solutions to plot complex data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783987542
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Up to Speed 2. The matplotlib Architecture FREE CHAPTER 3. matplotlib APIs and Integrations 4. Event Handling and Interactive Plots 5. High-level Plotting and Data Analysis 6. Customization and Configuration 7. Deploying matplotlib in Cloud Environments 8. matplotlib and Big Data 9. Clustering for matplotlib Index

What you need for this book

For this book, you will need Python 3.4.2 or a later version of this as is available with Ubuntu 15.04 and Mac OS X 10.10. This book was written using Python 3.4.2 on Mac OS X.

You will also need graphviz, HDF5, and their respective development libraries installed. Obtaining the code for each chapter depends upon the Git binary being present on your system. The other software packages that are used in this book will be automatically downloaded and installed for you in a virtual environment when you clone and set up the code for each chapter. Some of the chapters explore the use of matplotlib in Cloud environments. This is demonstrated by using Amazon AWS. As such, an AWS account will be needed for the users who wish to go through all the steps for these chapters.

If you are new to Python 3, the first chapter provides a brief overview of the same. It will provide you with the level of comfort that is needed when dealing with the examples in the book.

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