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Intro to Matplotlib

Intro to Matplotlib - Python Tutorial

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Intro to Matplotlib

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- [Instructor] So now that we've taken a look at the fundamentals of data visualization, it's time to move on to Matplotlib. In this section, we'll introduce the Matplotlib library, and use it to build and customize several chart types, including line charts, bar charts, pie charts, scatter plots, and histograms. We'll cover Matplotlib basics, a framework known as object-oriented plotting, which is going to be the primary framework we use in this course, chart formatting, and chart types. Our goals for this section are to understand the difference between the two primary Matplotlib plotting frameworks, identify the key components of an object-oriented plot, build different variations of line, bar, and pie charts, as well as scatterplots and histograms, and customize your charts by adding custom titles, labels, legends, annotations, and much more. So let's go ahead and take a look at the Matplotlib library. Matplotlib is an open source Python library built for data visualization that…

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