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Matplotlib Guide for Engineers

Matplotlib is a Python library for data visualization and plotting. It can produce publication-quality figures in various formats. This document provides examples of basic line plots, scatter plots, bar plots, histograms, and annotations using Matplotlib. It demonstrates how to import Matplotlib, generate simple and multi-axis plots, customize line styles, encode additional data dimensions in scatter plots, and add text and arrows to plots. The document recommends the Matplotlib website for further documentation and examples.

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Matplotlib Guide for Engineers

Matplotlib is a Python library for data visualization and plotting. It can produce publication-quality figures in various formats. This document provides examples of basic line plots, scatter plots, bar plots, histograms, and annotations using Matplotlib. It demonstrates how to import Matplotlib, generate simple and multi-axis plots, customize line styles, encode additional data dimensions in scatter plots, and add text and arrows to plots. The document recommends the Matplotlib website for further documentation and examples.

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Applied Machine Learning for Engineers

FS 2020 - B. Vennemann

Data Visualization with Matplotlib

What is Matplotlib
A Matlab-style plotting library for Python
Can produce publication-ready figures
Can be run in Python scripts, Python shells, Ipython shells, Jupyter notebooks, ...

Installation: conda install -c conda-forge matplotlib

Import the pyplot submodule with alias plt

In [1]:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Use Jupyter Notebook line magic for plotting inside the notebook

In [2]:

%matplotlib inline

Simple line plots

In [3]:

import numpy as np

In [4]:

x = np.linspace(0, 5, 50)
In [5]:

plt.plot(x, x, label='linear curve')


plt.plot(x, x**2, label='quadratic curve')
plt.legend()
plt.xlabel('x')
plt.ylabel('y')
plt.title('my interesting plot')
plt.show()

Example using subplots

In [6]:

plt.figure(figsize=(10, 4))
plt.subplot(1, 2, 1)
plt.plot(x, x, label='linear curve')
plt.legend()
plt.title('first subplot')

plt.subplot(1, 2, 2)
plt.plot(x, x**2, label='quadratic curve')
plt.legend()
plt.title('second subplot')
plt.show()

Example using line styles


In [7]:

plt.plot(x, x, 'g--', x, x**2, 'r.-', x, x**3, 'bo', linewidth=3)


plt.show()

Scatter plots

In [8]:

x = np.random.random(20)
y = np.random.random(20)

plt.scatter(x, y)
plt.show()

Example using more advanced scatter plot features

In [9]:

plt.scatter(x, y, s=500*y, c=x, cmap='cool') # x encoded as color and y encoded as size


plt.show()
Bar plots

In [10]:

category_names = ['Group A', 'Group B', 'Group C']


values = [5, 9, 3]

plt.bar(category_names, values)
plt.show()

Annotations, text and histograms

In [11]:

x = np.random.randn(10000)
plt.figure(figsize=(8, 5))
plt.hist(x, bins=50)
plt.text(-3, 500, 'some text')
plt.annotate('normal distribution', xy=(1, 450), xytext=(1.8, 550),
arrowprops=dict(facecolor='black', width=2))
plt.show()

Further reading
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