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The document describes important Matplotlib operations for basic plotting, figures and axes, customizing plots, figure styles and features, colors markers and line styles, advanced plot types, working with text and annotations, working with data, customizing layouts, interactive features, customizing ticks and spines, legends and colorbars, animation, working with paths and patches, 3D plotting, working with images, working with colormaps, event handling, customizing Matplotlib, Matplotlib configuration and helpers, advanced features, Matplotlib with Pandas, saving figures, interactive backends, customizing figure size and DPI, and subplot spacing and margins.

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+100 Important Matplotlib Operations

The document describes important Matplotlib operations for basic plotting, figures and axes, customizing plots, figure styles and features, colors markers and line styles, advanced plot types, working with text and annotations, working with data, customizing layouts, interactive features, customizing ticks and spines, legends and colorbars, animation, working with paths and patches, 3D plotting, working with images, working with colormaps, event handling, customizing Matplotlib, Matplotlib configuration and helpers, advanced features, Matplotlib with Pandas, saving figures, interactive backends, customizing figure size and DPI, and subplot spacing and margins.

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#_ important Matplotlib Operations [ +100 ]

Basic Plotting:

● plt.plot(): Plot y versus x as lines and/or markers.


● plt.scatter(): Make a scatter plot.
● plt.bar(): Make a bar plot.
● plt.barh(): Make a horizontal bar plot.
● plt.hist(): Plot a histogram.
● plt.boxplot(): Make a box and whisker plot.
● plt.pie(): Plot a pie chart.
● plt.fill_between(): Fill area between two horizontal curves.
● plt.errorbar(): Plot error bars.
● plt.stem(): Create a stem plot.

Figure and Axes:

● plt.figure(): Create a new figure.


● plt.subplots(): Create a figure and a set of subplots.
● plt.subplot2grid(): Create an axis at a specific location inside a
regular grid.
● plt.axes(): Add axes to the figure.
● fig.add_subplot(): Add a subplot to the current figure.
● ax.plot(): Plot data on a particular axes instance.

Customizing Plots:

● plt.title(): Set the title of the current axes.


● plt.xlabel(): Set the x-axis label.
● plt.ylabel(): Set the y-axis label.
● plt.xlim(): Set the x-axis view limits.
● plt.ylim(): Set the y-axis view limits.
● plt.xticks(): Set the x-axis tick locations and labels.
● plt.yticks(): Set the y-axis tick locations and labels.
● ax.set_xticklabels(): Set the x-axis tick labels on the specific
axes.

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● ax.set_yticklabels(): Set the y-axis tick labels on the specific
axes.
● plt.legend(): Place a legend on the axes.
● ax.legend(): Place a legend on the specific axes.
● plt.grid(): Configure the grid lines.
● ax.grid(): Configure the grid lines on a specific axes.
● plt.tight_layout(): Automatically adjust subplot parameters.
● fig.subplots_adjust(): Tune the subplot layout.

Figure Styles and Features:

● plt.style.use(): Use a predefined style.


● mpl.rc(): Set the current rc params.
● plt.rc_context(): Return a context manager for managing rc
settings.
● plt.savefig(): Save the current figure.
● plt.show(): Display all open figures.

Colors, Markers, and Line Styles:

● plt.plot(x, y, color='green'): Specify color by name.


● plt.plot(x, y, linestyle='--'): Specify line style.
● plt.plot(x, y, marker='o'): Specify marker style.
● plt.setp(): Set a property on an artist object.

Advanced Plot Types:

● plt.contour(): Contour plot.


● plt.contourf(): Filled contour plot.
● plt.imshow(): Display an image on the axes.
● plt.streamplot(): Draw streamlines of a vector flow.
● plt.quiver(): Plot a 2D field of arrows.
● plt.pcolor(): Create a pseudocolor plot.
● plt.tripcolor(): Create a pseudocolor plot of an unstructured
triangular grid.
● plt.tricontour(): Draw contours on an unstructured triangular
grid.

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● plt.hexbin(): Make a hexagonal binning plot.
● plt.stackplot(): Draw a stacked area plot.

Working with Text and Annotations:

● plt.text(): Add text to the axes.


● plt.annotate(): Annotate the point xy with text.
● plt.figtext(): Add text to the figure.

Working with Data:

● plt.fill_betweenx(): Fill area between two vertical curves.


● plt.vlines(): Plot vertical lines.
● plt.hlines(): Plot horizontal lines.
● plt.table(): Add a table to the axes.
● ax.twinx(): Create a second y-axis sharing the same x-axis.
● ax.twiny(): Create a second x-axis sharing the same y-axis.

Customizing Layouts:

● plt.subplot_mosaic(): Create a layout of subplots with a mosaic.


● fig.align_labels(): Align labels for subplots.
● GridSpec(): Specify a geometry for subplots.

Interactive Features:

● plt.connect(): Connect a callback function to an event.


● plt.disconnect(): Disconnect a callback function from an event.
● plt.pause(): Pause the interactive loop.

Customizing Ticks and Spines:

● ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(): Set the locator of the major ticker.


● ax.xaxis.set_minor_locator(): Set the locator of the minor ticker.
● ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(): Set the formatter of the major
ticker.
● ax.xaxis.set_minor_formatter(): Set the formatter of the minor
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● ax.spines['left'].set_position(): Set the position of the spine.

Legends and Colorbars:

● ax.legend(loc='upper right'): Place a legend at a specified


location.
● plt.colorbar(): Add a colorbar to a plot.
● ax.legend(handles, labels): Create a legend with custom handles
and labels.

Animation:

● animation.FuncAnimation(): Make an animation by repeatedly calling


a function.
● animation.ArtistAnimation(): Animation using a fixed set of Artist
objects.
● plt.draw(): Redraw the current figure.

Working with Paths and Patches:

● mpl.path.Path(): Create a new path.


● mpl.patches.Circle(): Create a circle patch.
● mpl.patches.Rectangle(): Create a rectangle patch.
● mpl.patches.Polygon(): Create a polygon patch.

3D Plotting with mplot3d:

● mpl_toolkits.mplot3d.Axes3D(): Create a 3D axes.


● ax.plot_surface(): Plot a 3D surface.
● ax.plot_wireframe(): Plot a 3D wireframe.
● ax.scatter3D(): Create a 3D scatter plot.
● ax.bar3d(): Create a 3D bar plot.

Working with Images:

● mpl.image.imread(): Read an image from a file into an array.


● mpl.image.imsave(): Save an array as an image file.

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Working with Colormaps:

● mpl.cm.get_cmap(): Get a colormap instance.


● mpl.colors.Normalize(): Normalize a given value to the 0-1 range
on a log scale.
● mpl.colors.LogNorm(): Normalize a given value to the 0-1 range on
a log scale.

Event Handling:

● mpl.connect('event_name', callback): Connect an event with a


callback.
● mpl.disconnect('event_name', callback): Disconnect an event from a
callback.

Customizing Matplotlib:

● mpl.use(): Set the Matplotlib backend.


● mpl.rcParams.update(): Update the Matplotlib rcParams.
● mpl.style.available: List available styles.

Matplotlib Configuration and Helpers:

● mpl.get_configdir(): Get the directory of Matplotlib configuration.


● mpl.get_cachedir(): Get the directory of Matplotlib cache.
● mpl.font_manager.findfont(): Find a font.

Advanced Features:

● mpl.colors.Colormap(): Base class for all scalar to RGBA mappings.


● mpl.ticker.ScalarFormatter(): Format tick values as a number.
● mpl.ticker.FuncFormatter(): User-defined function for formatting.
● mpl.dates.DateFormatter(): Format dates in plots.
● mpl.dates.AutoDateLocator(): Auto-select the date ticks.

Matplotlib with Pandas:

● DataFrame.plot(): Make plots of Series or DataFrame.

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● Series.plot(): Make plots of Series.

Saving Figures in Different Formats:

● fig.savefig('filename.png'): Save the figure as a .png file.


● fig.savefig('filename.svg'): Save the figure as a .svg file.
● fig.savefig('filename.pdf'): Save the figure as a .pdf file.

Interactive Backends (e.g., with Jupyter Notebook):

● %matplotlib inline: Set up Matplotlib for use in Jupyter Notebook.


● %matplotlib notebook: Enable interactive figures in a Jupyter
notebook.

Customizing Figure Size and DPI:

● plt.figure(figsize=(8, 6), dpi=100): Create a figure with specific


size and DPI.

Subplot Spacing and Margins:

● plt.subplots_adjust(left=None, bottom=None, right=None, top=None,


wspace=None, hspace=None): Adjust the subplot layout parameters.

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