Preface

In just over a decade, matplotlib has grown to offer the Python scientific computing community a world-class plotting and visualization library. When combined with related projects, such as Jupyter, NumPy, SciPy, and SymPy, matplotlib competes head-to-head with commercial software, which is far more established in the industry. Furthermore, the growth experienced by this open source software project is reflected again and again by individuals around the world, who make their way through the thorny wilds that face the newcomer and who develop into strong intermediate users with the potential to be very productive.

In essence, Mastering matplotlib is a very practical book. Yet every chapter was written considering this learning process, as ...

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