Creating our first chart

Now that we have all the required Python modules installed, we can create our own charts using Matplotlib.

We can create charts with only a few lines of Python code.

Getting ready

Successfully installing Matplotlib, as shown in the previous recipe, is a requirement for this recipe.

How to do it...

Using the minimum amount of code, we can create our first Matplotlib chart.

For the first chart, the steps are as follows:

1. Create a new Python module and save it as Matplotlib_our_first_chart.py.
2. Type the following code into the module:

import matplotlib...