Lesson Overview

In this lesson, we will quickly go over a few more types of plots using pyplot. My goal in this lesson isn’t to make you an expert in creating every type of plot, but rather to quickly expose you to those that are used in physics more commonly. Also, we’ll take a look at a couple useful features of pyplot that we haven’t had a chance to talk about yet.

The components of this lesson are:

  1. Other useful types of plots in pyplot

  2. Some more cool features of pyplot

Learning Goals

After this week, you should be able to

  • use a reference to quickly create a variety of plot types including log plots, histograms, scatter plots and quiver plots.

  • add latex math to labels and legends on your plots.

  • understand how to add subplots on a figure.

  • create amazing, glorious, plots in XKCD style.