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Plotting guide

An in-depth, tutorial style guide to the matplotlib plotting functions, which explains the most important keyword arguments with examples and figures.

Images

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.imshow`

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Colormaps

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Colorbars

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.colorbar`

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Contouring

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.contour`

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Scatter plots

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.scatter`

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Log plots

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.semilogx`, :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.semilogy` and :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.loglog`

Polar plots

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.polar`

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Filled plots

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.fill` and :mod:`~matplotlib.patches`

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Bar charts, histograms and errorbars

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.bar`, :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.barh`, :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.errorbar` and :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.hist`

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Timeseries plots

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.acorr`, :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.xcorr`, :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.psd`, :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.csd`, :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.cohere`, :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.specgram` and the windowing and detrending functions in :mod:`matplotlib.mlab`.

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Sparsity plots

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.spy`

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Boxplots

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.boxplot`

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Working with dates

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Working with masked/missing data

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Working with collections

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

Creating figure and axes legends

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.legend` and :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.figlegend`

:ref:`plotting-guide-legend`

Annotating plot

:func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.text` and :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.annotate`

:ref:`plotting-guide-annotation`

TODO; see :ref:`how-to-contribute-docs`.

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