Lesson Overview

So far, we’ve learned a lot of the tools that are necessary to be able to work with data in python. Now we turn to visualizing the data. In this lesson, we will learn about the Matplotlib module which enables us to make figures, animations, and other graphics.

The components of this lesson are:

1. An introduction to the Matplotlib library

2. Understanding how to create plots with the pyplot submodule

Learning Goals

After this week, you should be able to

• understand the anatomy of a figure

• know how to create a line plot using pyplot

• understand how to control the characteristics of a plot

• be able to add error bars to a line plot