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Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135718
Pages 676 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Srinivasa Rao Poladi Srinivasa Rao Poladi
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Nikhil Borkar Nikhil Borkar
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Anatomy of Matplotlib 2. Getting Started with Basic Plots 3. Plotting Multiple Charts, Subplots, and Figures 4. Developing Visualizations for Publishing Quality 5. Plotting with Object-Oriented API 6. Plotting with Advanced Features 7. Embedding Text and Expressions 8. Saving the Figure in Different Formats 9. Developing Interactive Plots 10. Embedding Plots in a Graphical User Interface 11. Plotting 3D Graphs Using the mplot3d Toolkit 12. Using the axisartist Toolkit 13. Using the axes_grid1 Toolkit 14. Plotting Geographical Maps Using Cartopy Toolkit 15. Exploratory Data Analysis Using the Seaborn Toolkit 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Plotting collections using object-oriented API

collections is a container of similar objects that share many properties.

Getting ready

Import the required libraries:

from matplotlib import collections
from IPython.core.display import display
from matplotlib.backends import backend_agg
import numpy as np

How to do it...

The following code block plots a collection of polygons that cycle through a given number of sizes and a given list of colors:

  1. Define the data for plotting a collection of polygons:
nsizes = 50  #number of different sizes to be used to plot the items in...
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