Matplotlib for Python Developers: Build Remarkable Publication Quality Plots the Easy Way - Softcover

Tosi, Sandro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847197906 ISBN 13: 9781847197900

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

This is a practical, hands-on book, with a lot of code and images. It presents the real code that generates every image and describes almost every single line of it, so that you know exactly what's going on. Introductory, descriptive, and theoretical parts are mixed with examples, so that reading and understanding them is easy. All of the examples build gradually with code snippets, their explanations, and plot images where necessary with the complete code and output presented at the end. This book is essentially for Python developers who have a good knowledge of Python; no knowledge of Matplotlib is required. You will be creating 2D plots using Matplotlib in no time at all.

About this title

About the Author

Sandro Tosi

Sandro Tosi is a Debian Developer, Open Source evangelist, and Python enthusiast. After completing a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Firenze, he worked as a consultant for an energy multinational as System Analyst and EAI Architect, and now works as System Engineer for one of the biggest and most innovative Italian Internet companies.

From the Back Cover

Providing appealing plots and graphs is an essential part of various fields such as scientific research, data analysis, and so on. Matplotlib, the Python 2D plotting library, is used to produce publication-quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. This book explains creating various plots, histograms, power spectra, bar charts, error charts, scatter-plots and much more using the powerful Matplotlib library to get impressive out-of-the-box results.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847197906
• ISBN 13: 9781847197900
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 293