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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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Object-oriented interface

We will now look into what object-oriented interface matplotlib is. We will discuss the following topics:

  • The object-oriented interface
  • Creating figures with a grid of subplots
  • Plotting using methods

In the object-oriented interface, what we need to do is create the object and call methods for every object in order to make changes specifically to that object. Let's look at a simple example, where a plot is created using the object-oriented interface. We usually use the plt.subplots function to create two objects at the same time. When we create a figure object, we usually call it fig, and an axis object is usually called an ax. In this case, the default function would be to produce a figure with one axis object, or one subplot. As we create our objects, some changes are involved. In order to make changes to our objects, namely, the plot, the title...

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