matplotlib Plotting Cookbook

Discover how easy it can be to create great scientific visualizations with Python. This cookbook includes over sixty matplotlib recipes together with clarifying explanations to ensure you can produce plots of high quality.

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Alexandre Devert

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|Sep 2025

E-Book €29.99Institutions €118.95

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Book Description

This book follows a cookbook style approach that puts orthogonal and non-redundant recipes in your hands. Rather than rehashing the user manual, the explanations expose the underlying logic behind Matplotlib. If you are an engineer or scientist who wants to create great visualizations with Python, rather than yet another specialized language, this is the book for you. While there are several very competent plotting packages, Matplotlib is “just” a Python module. Thus, if you know some Python already, you will feel at home from the first steps on. In case you are an application writer, you won't be left out since the integration of Matplolib is covered.

What you will learn

Discover how to create all the common plots you need
Enrich your plots with annotations and sophisticated legends
Take control of your plots and master colors, linestyle, and scales
Add a dimension to your plots and go 3D
Integrate your graphics into your applications
Automate your work and generate a large batch of graphics
Create interactive plots with matplotlib
Combine your plots to create sophisticated visualizations

matplotlib Plotting Cookbook

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