Matplotlib for Python Developers

by Sandro Tosi

This is a practical, hands-on book, with a lot of code and images. It presents the real code that generates every image and describes almost every single line of it, so that you know exactly what's going on. Introductory, descriptive, and theoretical parts are mixed with examples, so that reading and understanding them is easy. All of the examples build gradually with code snippets, their explanations, and plot images where necessary with the complete code and output presented at the end. This book is essentially for Python developers who have a good knowledge of Python; no knowledge of Matplotlib is required. You will be creating 2D plots using Matplotlib in no time at all.

Genres: Computers, Nonfiction, Programming

293 pages, Paperback

First published September 11, 2009

Reviews

[Arjen]

don't buy this book. The online documentation is better.

[Alberto]

As useless as tits on a bull. Almost 300 pages to tell me what I could find by googling a couple of code examples.

[Luis Franco]

Excelente y breve descripción de cómo utilizar Matplotlib dentro de Python, así como los principios generales de la librería. Conceptos que todos los que la usamos deberíamos conocer, pero que si se siguen otros cursos o tutoriales, se escapan.

[Jon]

Hands-down the best part of this book is the details on embedding matplotlib into desktop and web applications. The introductory material to matplotlib itself is adequate for getting pointed in the right direction, but lacks detail for any customization or complexity, leaving one to the mercies of the (uneven) official documentation. There are also a few points of outright confusion (the example code and text contradict each other on units for polar plots.)

[Jascha]

Not worth it at all. Just covers ticks, labels and dates, as well as some basic plots (histogram, scatter, pie).