The intermediate matplotlib user

If you've read the preface, then you know who this book is for—developers with intermediate or advanced knowledge of matplotlib as well as the motivated beginners. But who are they exactly? What do such users know?

Answers to such questions are fairly open-ended. We have the following guidelines. The intermediate matplotlib user should have some limited knowledge to passing experience with the following:

  • Installation of matplotlib in multiple environments
  • Creation of basic to moderately complicated matplotlib plots
  • Basic matplotlib APIs, styling, backends, and customizations
  • Using matplotlib objects, subplots, and overlays
  • Advanced third-party tools such as Seaborn, Pandas, ggplot, distributed IPython, and StarCluster ...

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