Matplotlib Tutorial

This is a short matplotlib tutorial, centered on the IPython notebook, created by Jake Vanderplas for PyData NYC in October 2012.

Table of Contents

• 1. Basic Plotting with Pylab
• 2. Object Oriented Interface
• 3. Various Plotting Examples
• 4. Text and Annotation
• 5. 3D Plotting
• 6. Animations

Other Useful Resources

• matplotlib documentation: http://matplotlib.org/
  • The gallery shows a very nice set of visual examles.
  • The plotting commands summary is a very useful reference.
• scipy lectures: http://scipy-lectures.github.com/
  • See especially the matplotlib tutorial in these lectures.

Downloads

• notebook tarball

The notebook tarball contains two directories, notebooks and notebooks_ex. notebooks is the source of the information on this page: all code is filed-in and plots are shown. notebooks_ex are only partially filled-out, and meant for interactive use during the live tutorial.