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matplotlib Plotting Cookbook. Discover how easy it can be to create great scientific visualizations with Python. This cookbook includes over sixty matplotlib recipes together with clarifying explanations to ensure you can produce plots of high quality

Alexandre Devert

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matplotlib Plotting Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- matplotlib Plotting Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
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- Preface
  - What this book covers
  - What you need for this book
  - Who this book is for
  - Conventions
  - Reader feedback
  - Customer support
    - Downloading the example code
    - Downloading the color images of this book
    - Errata
    - Piracy
    - Questions
- 1. First Steps
  - Introduction
  - Installing matplotlib
    - How to do it...
  - Plotting one curve
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - Theres more...
  - Using NumPy
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Plotting multiple curves
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Plotting curves from file data
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Plotting points
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Plotting bar charts
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - The thickness of a bar
      - Horizontal bars
  - Plotting multiple bar charts
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Plotting stacked bar charts
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Plotting back-to-back bar charts
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Plotting pie charts
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Plotting histograms
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Plotting boxplots
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Plotting triangulations
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- 2. Customizing the Color and Styles
  - Introduction
  - Defining your own colors
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using custom colors for scatter plots
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Using custom colors for bar charts
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Using custom colors for pie charts
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using custom colors for boxplots
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using colormaps for scatter plots
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using colormaps for bar charts
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Controlling a line pattern and thickness
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - The line style with other plot types
      - The line width
  - Controlling a fill pattern
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Controlling a marker's style
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Controlling a marker's size
    - How to do it...
    - There's more...
  - Creating your own markers
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Getting more control over markers
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Creating your own color scheme
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
- 3. Working with Annotations
  - Introduction
  - Adding a title
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using LaTeX-style notations
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Adding a label to each axis
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Adding text
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - Alignment control
      - Bounding box control
  - Adding arrows
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Adding a legend
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Adding a grid
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Adding lines
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Adding shapes
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - Working with polygons
      - Working with path attributes
  - Controlling tick spacing
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Controlling tick labeling
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - A simpler way to create bar charts with fixed labels
      - Advanced label generation
- 4. Working with Figures
  - Introduction
  - Compositing multiple figures
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
      - An alternative way to composite figures
  - Scaling both the axes equally
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Setting an axis range
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Setting the aspect ratio
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Inserting subfigures
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Using a logarithmic scale
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Using polar coordinates
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
- 5. Working with a File Output
  - Introduction
  - Generating a PNG picture file
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Handling transparency
    - How to do it...
      - Rendering a figure to a PNG file with a transparent background
      - Making a HTML page that includes the figure
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Controlling the output resolution
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Generating PDF or SVG documents
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Handling multiple-page PDF documents
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
- 6. Working with Maps
  - Introduction
  - Visualizing the content of a 2D array
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more
  - Adding a colormap legend to a figure
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Visualizing nonuniform 2D data
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Visualizing a 2D scalar field
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Visualizing contour lines
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Visualizing a 2D vector field
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Visualizing the streamlines of a 2D vector field
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
- 7. Working with 3D Figures
  - Introduction
  - Creating 3D scatter plots
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Creating 3D curve plots
    - How to do it
    - How it works...
  - Plotting a scalar field in 3D
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Plotting a parametric 3D surface
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Embedding 2D figures in a 3D figure
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Creating a 3D bar plot
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- 8. User Interface
  - Introduction
  - Making a user-controllable plot
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
    - There's more...
  - Integrating a plot to a Tkinter user interface
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Integrating a plot to a wxWidgets user interface
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Integrating a plot to a GTK user interface
    - Getting ready
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
  - Integrating a plot in a Pyglet application
    - How to do it...
    - How it works...
- Index

Title: matplotlib Plotting Cookbook. Discover how easy it can be to create great scientific visualizations with Python. This cookbook includes over sixty matplotlib recipes together with clarifying explanations to ensure you can produce plots of high quality
Author: Alexandre Devert
Original title: matplotlib Plotting Cookbook. Discover how easy it can be to create great scientific visualizations with Python. This cookbook includes over sixty matplotlib recipes together with clarifying explanations to ensure you can produce plots of high quality.
ISBN: 9781849513272, 9781849513272
Date of issue: 2014-03-26
Format: Ebook
Item ID: e_3d0z
Publisher: Packt Publishing

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