Setting line styles and markers

Good displays of data should make it easy to identify what data is being represented by each graph component. There are several ways to do that, but using line colors, styles, and markers goes a long way to help readers identify what quantity is represented by each line.

Getting ready

Start Jupyter and run the following three commands in an execution cell:

%matplotlib inline
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

How to do it…

Run the following code in a Jupyter code cell:

plt.figure(figsize=(8,4))
plt.subplot(1, 2, 1)
xvalues...