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Become a Python Data Analyst

You're reading from   Become a Python Data Analyst Perform exploratory data analysis and gain insight into scientific computing using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789531701
Length 178 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Introducing Matplotlib

Matplotlib tries to make easy things easier, and hard things possible. Basically, matplotlib is a plotting library that produces publication quality figures in a variety of formats and interactive environments. Let's now discuss what matplotlib is, its capabilities, and also its basic concepts, figures, subplots (axes), and axes. It can be used everywhere and for a variety of purposes. It can also be used in Python scripts, Python interpreter, the Python shell, the Jupyter Notebook, web application servers, and every graphical user interface that we can produce with Python.

Now, let's take a look at our Jupyter Notebook, wherein lies more information about matplotlib. But before doing that, let's first visit the website matplotlib.org. This is the project website and the primary online resource for this library's documentation. We can...

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