Plot types#

Overview of many common plotting commands provided by Matplotlib.

See the gallery for more examples and the tutorials page for longer examples.

Pairwise data#

Plots of pairwise \((x, y)\), tabular \((var\_0, \cdots, var\_n)\), and functional \(f(x)=y\) data.

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plot(x, y)

plot(x, y)

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scatter(x, y)

scatter(x, y)

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bar(x, height)

bar(x, height)

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stem(x, y)

stem(x, y)

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fill_between(x, y1, y2)

fill_between(x, y1, y2)

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stackplot(x, y)

stackplot(x, y)

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stairs(values)

stairs(values)

Statistical distributions#

Plots of the distribution of at least one variable in a dataset. Some of these methods also compute the distributions.

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hist(x)

hist(x)

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boxplot(X)

boxplot(X)

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errorbar(x, y, yerr, xerr)

errorbar(x, y, yerr, xerr)

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violinplot(D)

violinplot(D)

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eventplot(D)

eventplot(D)

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hist2d(x, y)

hist2d(x, y)

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hexbin(x, y, C)

hexbin(x, y, C)

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pie(x)

pie(x)

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ecdf(x)

ecdf(x)

Gridded data#

Plots of arrays and images \(Z_{i, j}\) and fields \(U_{i, j}, V_{i, j}\) on regular grids and corresponding coordinate grids \(X_{i,j}, Y_{i,j}\).

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imshow(Z)

imshow(Z)

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pcolormesh(X, Y, Z)

pcolormesh(X, Y, Z)

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contour(X, Y, Z)

contour(X, Y, Z)

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contourf(X, Y, Z)

contourf(X, Y, Z)

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barbs(X, Y, U, V)

barbs(X, Y, U, V)

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quiver(X, Y, U, V)

quiver(X, Y, U, V)

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streamplot(X, Y, U, V)

streamplot(X, Y, U, V)

Irregularly gridded data#

Plots of data \(Z_{x, y}\) on unstructured grids , unstructured coordinate grids \((x, y)\), and 2D functions \(f(x, y) = z\).

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tricontour(x, y, z)

tricontour(x, y, z)

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tricontourf(x, y, z)

tricontourf(x, y, z)

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tripcolor(x, y, z)

tripcolor(x, y, z)

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triplot(x, y)

triplot(x, y)

3D and volumetric data#

Plots of three-dimensional \((x,y,z)\), surface \(f(x,y)=z\), and volumetric \(V_{x, y, z}\) data using the mpl_toolkits.mplot3d library.

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bar3d(x, y, z, dx, dy, dz)

bar3d(x, y, z, dx, dy, dz)

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fill_between(x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2)

fill_between(x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2)

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plot(xs, ys, zs)

plot(xs, ys, zs)

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quiver(X, Y, Z, U, V, W)

quiver(X, Y, Z, U, V, W)

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scatter(xs, ys, zs)

scatter(xs, ys, zs)

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stem(x, y, z)

stem(x, y, z)

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plot_surface(X, Y, Z)

plot_surface(X, Y, Z)

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plot_trisurf(x, y, z)

plot_trisurf(x, y, z)

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voxels([x, y, z], filled)

voxels([x, y, z], filled)

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plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z)

plot_wireframe(X, Y, Z)

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