Chapter 3. Drawing Your First Plots and Customizing Them

In this chapter we will go into a lot more detail and present most of the possibilities of matplotlib. We will cover:

• Defining plot types – bar, line, and stacked charts

• Drawing simple sine and cosine plots

• Defining axis lengths and limits

• Defining plot line styles, properties, and format strings

• Setting ticks, labels, and grids

• Adding legends and annotations

• Moving spines to the center

• Making histograms

• Making bar charts with error bars

• Making pie charts count

• Plotting with filled areas

• Drawing scatter plots with colored markers