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1. A Utilitarian Introduction to
Matplotlib
20APR2013
Drew Arnett
a.arnett@ieee.org

2. whoami
• B.S. Electrical Engineering
• python user
– test control sw
– data analysis and processing
• utilitarian user of matplotlib

3. Presentation overview
Matplotlib.org doc is very good
… so mostly demo

4. References
• matplotlib.org +++ documentation
– gallery
– plotting commands summary
– examples
– navigation keyboard shortcuts
• Related:
– Numpy
– Scipy
– IPython
• Alternatives

5. References
• matplotlib.org +++ documentation
– gallery http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html
– plotting commands summary
http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_summary.html
– examples http://matplotlib.org/examples/index.html
– navigation keyboard shortcuts
http://matplotlib.org/users/navigation_toolbar.html
• Related:
– Numpy http://www.numpy.org/
– Scipy http://www.scipy.org/
– Ipython http://ipython.org/
• Alternatives

6. Usage
• Alternatives importing and use style
• Pylab
• Ipython
• Pythonic
• Backends
– Interactive
– Raster/vector
– GUI APIs

7. Demos
• Examples with S&P closing data (and another
example to show a two scales plot)
• Real world examples