Python Data Visualization Cookbook - Second Edition

Setting ticks, labels, and grids

In this recipe, we will continue with setting axis and line properties and adding more data to our figure and charts.

Getting ready

Let's learn a bit about figures and subplots.

In matplotlib, figure() is used to explicitly create a figure, which represents a user interface window. Figures are created implicitly just by calling plot() or similar functions. This is fine for simple charts, but having the ability to explicitly create a figure and get a reference to its instance is very useful for more advanced use.

A figure contains one or more subplots. Subplots allow us to arrange plots in a regular grid. We already used subplot(), in which we specify the number of rows and columns and the number of the plot we are ...