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<spanid="tutorials-introductory"></span><h2>Introductory<aclass="headerlink" href="#introductory" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>These tutorials cover the basics of creating visualizations with
Matplotlib, as well as some best-practices in using the package
effectively.</p>
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<divclass="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This tutorial covers some basic usage patterns and best-practices to help you get started with ..."><divclass="figure" id="id5">
<divclass="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="This tutorial aims to show the beginning, middle, and end of a single visualization using Matpl..."><divclass="figure" id="id7">
<pclass="caption"><spanclass="caption-text"><aclass="reference internal" href="introductory/lifecycle.html#sphx-glr-tutorials-introductory-lifecycle-py"><spanclass="std std-ref">The Lifecycle of a Plot</span></a></span></p>
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<spanid="tutorials-intermediate"></span><h2>Intermediate<aclass="headerlink" href="#intermediate" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>These tutorials cover some of the more complicated classes and functions
in Matplotlib. They can be useful for particular custom and complex
visualizations.</p>
<divclass="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Demo of custom property-cycle settings to control colors and other style properties for multi-l..."><divclass="figure" id="id8">
<pclass="caption"><spanclass="caption-text"><aclass="reference internal" href="intermediate/gridspec.html#sphx-glr-tutorials-intermediate-gridspec-py"><spanclass="std std-ref">Customizing Location of Subplot Using GridSpec</span></a></span></p>
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<divclass="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Using Artist objects to render on the canvas."><divclass="figure" id="id11">
<divclass="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Like any graphics packages, Matplotlib is built on top of a transformation framework to easily ..."><divclass="figure" id="id15">
<spanid="tutorials-colors"></span><h2>Colors<aclass="headerlink" href="#colors" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Matplotlib has support for visualizing information with a wide array
of colors and colormaps. These tutorials cover the basics of how
these colormaps look, how you can create your own, and how you can
customize colormaps for your use case.</p>
<p>For even more information see the <aclass="reference internal" href="../gallery/index.html#color-examples"><spanclass="std std-ref">examples page</span></a>.</p>
<divclass="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Matplotlib recognizes the following formats to specify a color:"><divclass="figure" id="id16">
<divclass="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="Objects that use colormaps by default linearly map the colors in the colormap from data values ..."><divclass="figure" id="id18">