AI engineering glossary · NumPy pandas visualization

What is matplotlib?

Matplotlib: The foundational Python library for drawing charts. It can produce line plots, bar charts, scatter plots, histograms and much more, with fine control over every element of the figure. Many other plotting libraries, including pandas plotting and Seaborn, are built on top of it.

Level: beginnerTopic: NumPy pandas visualization

Matplotlib: an example

plt.plot([1, 2, 3], [10, 20, 15]); plt.show() draws a line through three points.

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Where you learn it

Matplotlib is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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