<spanid="id1"></span><h1>Mission Statement<aclass="headerlink" href="#mission-statement" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>The Matplotlib developer community develops, maintains, and supports Matplotlib
and its extensions to provide data visualization tools for the Scientific
Python Ecosystem.</p>
<p>Adapting the requirements <aclass="reference internal" href="history.html#project-history"><spanclass="std std-ref">laid out by John Hunter</span></a>
Matplotlib should:</p>
<ulclass="simple">
<li><p>Support users of the Scientific Python ecosystem;</p></li>
<li><p>Facilitate interactive data exploration;</p></li>
<li><p>Produce high-quality raster and vector format outputs suitable for publication;</p></li>
<li><p>Provide a simple graphical user interface and support embedding in applications;</p></li>
<li><p>Be understandable and extensible by people familiar with data processing in Python;</p></li>
<li><p>Make common plots easy, and novel or complex visualizations possible.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>We believe that a diverse developer community creates the best software, and we
welcome anyone who shares our mission, and our values described in the <aclass="reference external" href="https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md">code of
conduct</a>.</p>
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