An Introduction to Matplotlib

  • Nick Swanson-Hysell: swanson-hysell@berkeley.edu
  • Tenzing HY Joshi: thjoshi@lbl.gov

Nick, I've added some crude thoughts below for what to focus on. I will be working on my pandas THW talk over the next week, after that I'll have some more time to get cracking on this. Co-leading sounds great, carve out what you're most excited about.

Primary objectives

  • Importing
  • Simple plots and convienent methods
  • Figures and Axes
  • Useful plot types
    • plot
    • scatter
    • hist
    • pcolor & pcolormesh
    • others...
  • Formatting
    • axes labels
    • multiple frames
    • colors
  • Publication examples

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