Plotting with Matplotlib

April 2^nd 10am-11.30am & April 6^th 1pm-2.30pm

Brasserie Seminar Room, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL.

Delivered by Spencer Wilson and Tim Sit

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Pre-session assignment:

• clone or download this repo from GitHub: here
• run the file pre_session_assignment.py from PyCharm
• send Spencer or Tim (over Slack or email) a screenshot of the resulting plot
• If you get stuck, just ask us for help!

Outline

• Pulling data from a file
• Plotting in Matplotlib using matplotlib.pyplot
• Basic introduction to object-oriented (OO) programming
• Plotting in Matplotlib using its OO interface
• How to use the docs
• Changing plot attributes
• Adding text and blits to plots
• Crafting legends
• Saving figures
• Alternative plotting libraries in Python