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This document discusses how to create a simple line plot in Matplotlib. It imports Matplotlib and NumPy, generates arrays of x and y values, plots the x and y arrays, labels the axes and title, and displays the plot. It then discusses how to display Matplotlib plots inline in a Jupyter notebook by using the %matplotlib inline magic command and not calling plt.show().

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Matplotlib - Simple Plot - Tutorialspoint

This document discusses how to create a simple line plot in Matplotlib. It imports Matplotlib and NumPy, generates arrays of x and y values, plots the x and y arrays, labels the axes and title, and displays the plot. It then discusses how to display Matplotlib plots inline in a Jupyter notebook by using the %matplotlib inline magic command and not calling plt.show().

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Matplotlib - Simple Plot

In this chapter, we will learn how to create a simple plot with Matplotlib.
We shall now display a simple line plot of angle in radians vs. its sine value in Matplotlib. To begin
with, the Pyplot module from Matplotlib package is imported, with an alias plt as a matter of
convention.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Next we need an array of numbers to plot. Various array functions are defined in the NumPy library
which is imported with the np alias.

import numpy as np

We now obtain the ndarray object of angles between 0 and 2π using the arange() function from the
NumPy library.

x = np.arange(0, math.pi*2, 0.05)

The ndarray object serves as values on x axis of the graph. The corresponding sine values of
angles in x to be displayed on y axis are obtained by the following statement −

y = np.sin(x)

The values from two arrays are plotted using the plot() function.

plt.plot(x,y)

You can set the plot title, and labels for x and y axes.

You can set the plot title, and labels for x and y axes.
plt.xlabel("angle")
plt.ylabel("sine")
plt.title('sine wave')

The Plot viewer window is invoked by the show() function −

plt.show()

The complete program is as follows −

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from matplotlib import pyplot as plt


import numpy as np
import math #needed for definition of pi
x = np.arange(0, math.pi*2, 0.05)
y = np.sin(x)
plt.plot(x,y)
plt.xlabel("angle")
plt.ylabel("sine")
plt.title('sine wave')
plt.show()

When the above line of code is executed, the following graph is displayed −

Now, use the Jupyter notebook with Matplotlib.


Launch the Jupyter notebook from Anaconda navigator or command line as described earlier. In
the input cell, enter import statements for Pyplot and NumPy −

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt


import numpy as np

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To display plot outputs inside the notebook itself (and not in the separate viewer), enter the
following magic statement −

%matplotlib inline

Obtain x as the ndarray object containing angles in radians between 0 to 2π, and y as sine value of
each angle −

import math
x = np.arange(0, math.pi*2, 0.05)
y = np.sin(x)

Set labels for x and y axes as well as the plot title −

plt.xlabel("angle")
plt.ylabel("sine")
plt.title('sine wave')

Finally execute the plot() function to generate the sine wave display in the notebook (no need to run
the show() function) −

plt.plot(x,y)

After the execution of the final line of code, the following output is displayed −

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