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Learn Matplotlib, One Chart at a Time

Short lessons on drawing charts in Python. Each lesson has a live visualizer you can play with, the code behind it, and a button to run it online.

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Matplotlib basics

Draw your first charts with pyplot, add labels, legends, colors and several charts in one figure, and learn the four everyday chart types.

9 lessons
About 2 h

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Intermediate Matplotlib

Control axes and ticks, annotate what matters, show spread and uncertainty, stack data, plot pandas DataFrames and save figures for reports.

7 lessons
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Advanced Matplotlib

Heatmaps, two y axes, complex layouts, 3D surfaces and animations, finishing with a sales dashboard project.

6 lessons
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Matplotlib BasicsDraw your first charts, then add titles, labels, legends, colors, styles and several charts in one figure.

Matplotlib Chart TypesPick the right chart for your data: bar charts, scatter plots, histograms and pie charts.

Intermediate MatplotlibControl axes and ticks, annotate the story, show spread and uncertainty, stack data, plot pandas DataFrames and save figures for reports.

Advanced MatplotlibHeatmaps, two y axes, complex layouts, 3D surfaces and animations, then put it all together in a dashboard project.

Learn Matplotlib, One Chart at a Time

Learning paths

Matplotlib basics

Intermediate Matplotlib

Advanced Matplotlib

Explore Matplotlib topics

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Matplotlib pyplot Basics: plt.plot and plt.show

Plot a Line Graph in Python

Titles, Labels, and Legends

Colors, Line Styles, and Markers

Several Charts in One Figure

Bar Charts

Scatter Plots

Histograms

Pie Charts

Axis Limits, Ticks, and Log Scale

Annotations, Text, and Reference Lines

Box Plots and Violin Plots

Stacked Bars and Area Charts

Error Bars and Uncertainty

Plotting pandas DataFrames

Saving Figures: savefig, DPI, and Size

Heatmaps with imshow and Colormaps

Two Y Axes with twinx

Complex Layouts with subplot_mosaic

3D Surface Plots

Animations with FuncAnimation

Project: Build a Sales Dashboard