Matplotlib

“The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures.”

—Ben Shneiderman

Visualization is one of the most important means for the interpretation of the results of scientific computations. The package that is mostly used for this task is Matplotlib.

The matplotlib package is typically imported via

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

And subsequently all plotting commands are called using the prefix plt.

Rather than exercises that want you to get some results you are shown simple examples for the most common types of plots.

Note

Producing scientific plots that manage to support your chain of arguments in a presentation or publication can not be overestimated. To a certain degree it could be considered an art, but there are some best practices, e.g., for picking colormaps.