Chapter 2: Review of Another Core Module – Matplotlib

Matplotlib is our go-to module for creating visualizations from data. Not only can this module draw many different plots, but it also gives us the capability to design and tailor the plots to our needs. Matplotlib will serve our data analytics and data preprocessing journey by providing a great number of functions for effective visualizations.

Before we start reviewing this valuable module, I would like to let you know that this chapter is not meant to be a comprehensive teaching guide for Matplotlib, but rather a collection of concepts, functions, and examples that will be invaluable as we cover data analytics and data preprocessing in future chapters.

We have actually started using this module in the previous chapter. The Pandas plot functions that we introduced in Chapter 1, Review of the Core Modules of NumPy and Pandas, under the Pandas functions to explore a DataFrame are section, actually Matplotlib visuals that...