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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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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

Using transforms

To refer to a specific point on the graph, we need its co-ordinates. There are four different co-ordinate systems used by Matplotlib with reference to data, axes, figures, and display. In this recipe, we will learn how to use these co-ordinate systems and transform from one co-ordinate system to another:

  • Data: The data co-ordinate system refers to input data points as co-ordinates, and these are controlled by the xlim and ylim parameters to restrict the range of data to be plotted on the graph. The method to transform from the data co-ordinate system to the display co-ordinate system is ax.transData.
  • Axes: The axes co-ordinate system refers to the axes object, with (0,0) being the bottom left corner of the axes and (1, 1) being the top right corner of the axes. The co-ordinate that refers to a point in the center of the axes is (0.5, 0.5). The method that transforms...
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