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Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

You're reading from   Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook Over 150 recipes to create highly detailed interactive visualizations using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135718
Length 676 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nikhil Borkar Nikhil Borkar
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Srinivasa Rao Poladi Srinivasa Rao Poladi
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Anatomy of Matplotlib FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Basic Plots 3. Plotting Multiple Charts, Subplots, and Figures 4. Developing Visualizations for Publishing Quality 5. Plotting with Object-Oriented API 6. Plotting with Advanced Features 7. Embedding Text and Expressions 8. Saving the Figure in Different Formats 9. Developing Interactive Plots 10. Embedding Plots in a Graphical User Interface 11. Plotting 3D Graphs Using the mplot3d Toolkit 12. Using the axisartist Toolkit 13. Using the axes_grid1 Toolkit 14. Plotting Geographical Maps Using Cartopy Toolkit 15. Exploratory Data Analysis Using the Seaborn Toolkit 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Polar plot

The polar plot is a chart plotted on the polar axis, which has coordinates as angle (in degrees) and radius, as opposed to the Cartesian system of x and y coordinates. We will take the example of planned versus the actual expense incurred by various departments in an organization. This is also known as a spider web plot.

Getting ready

Import the required libraries:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

How to do it...

Since it is a circular spider web, we need to connect the last point to the first point, so that there is a circular flow of the...
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