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Bar Label Demo

Stacked bar chart

Grouped bar chart with labels

Horizontal bar chart

Broken Barh

CapStyle

Plotting categorical variables

Plotting the coherence of two signals

CSD Demo

Curve with error band

Errorbar limit selection

Errorbar subsampling

EventCollection Demo

Eventplot Demo

Filled polygon

Fill Between and Alpha

Filling the area between lines

Fill Betweenx Demo

Hatch-filled histograms

Bar chart with gradients

Hat graph

Discrete distribution as horizontal bar chart

JoinStyle

Customizing dashed line styles

Lines with a ticked patheffect

Linestyles

Marker reference

Markevery Demo

prop_cycle property markevery in rcParams

Plotting masked and NaN values

Multicolored lines

Psd Demo

Scatter Custom Symbol

Scatter Demo2

Scatter plot with histograms

Scatter Masked

Scatter plot with pie chart markers

Marker examples

Scatter Symbol

Scatter plots with a legend

Simple Plot

Using span_where

Spectrum Representations

Stackplots and streamgraphs

Stairs Demo

Stem Plot

Step Demo

Creating a timeline with lines, dates, and text

hlines and vlines

Cross- and Auto-Correlation Demo

Affine transform of an image

Wind Barbs

Barcode

Contour Corner Mask

Contour Demo

Contour Image

Contour Label Demo

Contourf Demo

Contourf Hatching

Contourf and log color scale

Contouring the solution space of optimizations

BboxImage Demo

Figimage Demo

Creating annotated heatmaps

Image antialiasing

Clipping images with patches

Image Demo

Image Masked

Image Nonuniform

Blend transparency with color in 2D images

Modifying the coordinate formatter

Interpolations for imshow

Contour plot of irregularly spaced data

Layer Images

Matshow

Multi Image

Pcolor Demo

pcolormesh grids and shading

pcolormesh

Streamplot

QuadMesh Demo

Advanced quiver and quiverkey functions

Quiver Simple Demo

Shading example

Spectrogram Demo

Spy Demos

Tricontour Demo

Tricontour Smooth Delaunay

Tricontour Smooth User

Trigradient Demo

Triinterp Demo

Tripcolor Demo

Triplot Demo

Watermark image

Aligning Labels

Axes box aspect

Axes Demo

Controlling view limits using margins and sticky_edges

Axes Props

Axes Zoom Effect

axhspan Demo

Equal axis aspect ratio

Axis Label Position

Broken Axis

Placing Colorbars

Custom Figure subclasses

Resizing axes with constrained layout

Resizing axes with tight layout

Different scales on the same axes

Figure size in different units

Figure labels: suptitle, supxlabel, supylabel

Creating adjacent subplots

Geographic Projections

Combining two subplots using subplots and GridSpec

Using Gridspec to make multi-column/row subplot layouts

Nested Gridspecs

Invert Axes

Managing multiple figures in pyplot

Secondary Axis

Sharing axis limits and views

Shared Axis

Figure subfigures

Multiple subplots

Subplots spacings and margins

Creating multiple subplots using plt.subplots

Plots with different scales

Zoom region inset axes

Percentiles as horizontal bar chart

Artist customization in box plots

Box plots with custom fill colors

Boxplots

Box plot vs. violin plot comparison

Boxplot drawer function

Plot a confidence ellipse of a two-dimensional dataset

Violin plot customization

Errorbar function

Different ways of specifying error bars

Including upper and lower limits in error bars

Creating boxes from error bars using PatchCollection

Hexagonal binned plot

Histograms

Using histograms to plot a cumulative distribution

Some features of the histogram (hist) function

Demo of the histogram function's different histtype settings

The histogram (hist) function with multiple data sets

Producing multiple histograms side by side

Time Series Histogram

Violin plot basics

Basic pie chart

Pie Demo2

Bar of pie

Nested pie charts

Labeling a pie and a donut

Bar chart on polar axis

Polar plot

Polar Legend

Scatter plot on polar axis

Using accented text in matplotlib

Scale invariant angle label

Annotating Plots

Arrow Demo

Auto-wrapping text

Composing Custom Legends

Date tick labels

Custom tick formatter for time series

AnnotationBbox demo

Using a text as a Path

Text Rotation Mode

The difference between \dfrac and \frac

Labeling ticks using engineering notation

Annotation arrow style reference

Styling text boxes

Figure legend demo

Configuring the font family

Using a ttf font file in Matplotlib

Font table

Fonts demo (object-oriented style)

Fonts demo (keyword arguments)

Labelling subplots

Legend using pre-defined labels

Legend Demo

Artist within an artist

Convert texts to images

Mathtext

Mathtext Examples

Math fontfamily

Multiline

Placing text boxes

Rainbow text

STIX Fonts

Rendering math equations using TeX

Precise text layout

Controlling style of text and labels using a dictionary

Default text rotation demonstration

Text Rotation Relative To Line

Title positioning

Unicode minus

Usetex Baseline Test

Usetex Fonteffects

Text watermark

Align y-labels

Annotate Transform

Annotating a plot

Annotation Polar

Programmatically controlling subplot adjustment

Infinite lines

Boxplot Demo

Dollar Ticks

Fig Axes Customize Simple

Simple axes labels

Adding lines to figures

plot() format string

Pyplot Mathtext

Pyplot Simple

Pyplot Text

Pyplot Three

Pyplot Two Subplots

Text Commands

Text Layout

Color Demo

Color by y-value

Colors in the default property cycle

Colorbar

Colormap reference

Creating a colormap from a list of colors

List of named colors

Arrow guide

Reference for Matplotlib artists

Line, Poly and RegularPoly Collection with autoscaling

Compound path

Dolphins

Mmh Donuts!!!

Ellipse Collection

Ellipse Demo

Drawing fancy boxes

Hatch demo

Hatch style reference

Line Collection

Circles, Wedges and Polygons

PathPatch object

Bezier Curve

Scatter plot

Bayesian Methods for Hackers style sheet

Dark background style sheet

FiveThirtyEight style sheet

ggplot style sheet

Grayscale style sheet

Solarized Light stylesheet

Style sheets reference

Anchored Direction Arrow

Axes Divider

Demo Axes Grid

Axes Grid2

HBoxDivider demo

Showing RGB channels using RGBAxes

Adding a colorbar to inset axes

Colorbar with AxesDivider

Controlling the position and size of colorbars with Inset Axes

Per-row or per-column colorbars

Axes with a fixed physical size

Setting a fixed aspect on ImageGrid cells

Inset Locator Demo

Inset Locator Demo2

Make Room For Ylabel Using Axesgrid

Parasite Simple

Parasite Simple2

Scatter Histogram (Locatable Axes)

Simple Anchored Artists

Simple Axes Divider 1

Simple Axes Divider 3

Simple ImageGrid

Simple ImageGrid 2

Simple Axisline4

Simple Colorbar

Axis Direction

axis_direction demo

Axis line styles

Curvilinear grid demo

Demo CurveLinear Grid2

mpl_toolkits.axisartist.floating_axes features

floating_axis demo

Parasite Axes demo

Parasite axis demo

Ticklabel alignment

Ticklabel direction

Simple Axis Direction01

Simple Axis Direction03

Simple Axis Pad

Custom spines with axisartist

Simple Axisline

Simple Axisline3

Anatomy of a figure

Bachelor's degrees by gender

Firefox

Integral as the area under a curve

Shaded & power normalized rendering

XKCD

Decay

Animated histogram

pyplot animation

The Bayes update

The double pendulum problem

Animated image using a precomputed list of images

Frame grabbing

Pausing and Resuming an Animation

Rain simulation

Animated 3D random walk

Animated line plot

Oscilloscope

MATPLOTLIB UNCHAINED

Close Event

Mouse move and click events

Data Browser

Figure/Axes enter and leave events

Interactive functions

Image Slices Viewer

Keypress event

Lasso Demo

Legend Picking

Looking Glass

Path Editor

Pick Event Demo

Pick Event Demo2

Pipong

Poly Editor

Pong

Resampling Data

Timers

Trifinder Event Demo

Viewlims

Zoom Window

Frontpage 3D example

Frontpage contour example

Frontpage histogram example

Frontpage plot example

Anchored Artists

Changing colors of lines intersecting a box

Manual Contour

Coords Report

Cross hair cursor

Custom projection

Customize Rc

AGG filter

Ribbon Box

Fill Spiral

Findobj Demo

Font indexing

Font properties

Building histograms using Rectangles and PolyCollections

Hyperlinks

Image Thumbnail

Plotting with keywords

Matplotlib logo

Multipage PDF

Multiprocess

Packed-bubble chart

Patheffect Demo

Print Stdout

Pythonic Matplotlib

Rasterization for vector graphics

Set and get properties

SVG Filter Line

SVG Filter Pie

Table Demo

TickedStroke patheffect

transforms.offset_copy

Zorder Demo

Plot 2D data on 3D plot

Demo of 3D bar charts

Create 2D bar graphs in different planes

3D box surface plot

Demonstrates plotting contour (level) curves in 3D

Demonstrates plotting contour (level) curves in 3D using the extend3d option

Projecting contour profiles onto a graph

Filled contours

Projecting filled contour onto a graph

Custom hillshading in a 3D surface plot

3D errorbars

Create 3D histogram of 2D data

Parametric Curve

Lorenz Attractor

2D and 3D Axes in same Figure

Automatic Text Offsetting

Draw flat objects in 3D plot

Generate polygons to fill under 3D line graph

3D quiver plot

Rotating a 3D plot

3D scatterplot

3D stem

3D plots as subplots

3D surface (colormap)

3D surface (solid color)

3D surface (checkerboard)

3D surface with polar coordinates

Text annotations in 3D

Triangular 3D contour plot

Triangular 3D filled contour plot

Triangular 3D surfaces

More triangular 3D surfaces

3D voxel / volumetric plot

3D voxel plot of the numpy logo

3D voxel / volumetric plot with rgb colors

3D voxel / volumetric plot with cylindrical coordinates

3D wireframe plot

Rotating 3D wireframe plot

3D wireframe plots in one direction

Loglog Aspect

Custom scale

Log Bar

Log Demo

Log Axis

Logit Demo

Exploring normalizations

Scales

Symlog Demo

Hillshading

Anscombe's quartet

Hinton diagrams

Left ventricle bullseye

MRI

MRI With EEG

Radar chart (aka spider or star chart)

The Sankey class

Long chain of connections using Sankey

Rankine power cycle

SkewT-logP diagram: using transforms and custom projections

Topographic hillshading

Centered spines with arrows

Multiple Yaxis With Spines

Spine Placement

Spines

Custom spine bounds

Dropped spines

Automatically setting tick positions

Centering labels between ticks

Colorbar Tick Labelling

Custom Ticker1

Formatting date ticks using ConciseDateFormatter

Date Demo Convert

Placing date ticks using recurrence rules

Date Index Formatter

Date Precision and Epochs

Major and minor ticks

The default tick formatter

Tick formatters

Tick locators

Set default y-axis tick labels on the right

Setting tick labels from a list of values

Set default x-axis tick labels on the top

Rotating custom tick labels

Annotation with units

Artist tests

Bar demo with units

Group barchart with units

Basic Units

Ellipse With Units

Evans test

Radian ticks

Inches and Centimeters

Unit handling

CanvasAgg demo

Embedding in GTK3 with a navigation toolbar

Embedding in GTK3

Embedding in GTK4 with a navigation toolbar

Embedding in GTK4

Embedding in Qt

Embedding in Tk

Embedding in wx #2

Embedding in wx #3

Embedding in wx #4

Embedding in wx #5

Embedding WebAgg

Fourier Demo WX

GTK3 Spreadsheet

GTK4 Spreadsheet

MathText WX

Matplotlib With Glade 3

pyplot with GTK3

pyplot with GTK4

SVG Histogram

SVG Tooltip

Tool Manager

Embedding in a web application server (Flask)

Adding a cursor in WX

Anchored Box04

Annotate Explain

Annotate Simple01

Annotate Simple02

Annotate Simple03

Annotate Simple04

Annotate Simple Coord01

Annotate Simple Coord02

Annotate Simple Coord03

Annotate Text Arrow

Interactive Adjustment of Colormap Range

Colormap Normalizations

Colormap Normalizations Symlognorm

Connect Simple01

Connection styles for annotations

Custom box styles

subplot2grid demo

GridSpec demo

Nested GridSpecs

Pgf Fonts

Pgf Preamble

Pgf Texsystem

Simple Annotate01

Simple Legend01

Simple Legend02

Annotated Cursor

Buttons

Check Buttons

Cursor

Lasso Selector

Menu

Mouse Cursor

Multicursor

Polygon Selector

Radio Buttons

Thresholding an Image with RangeSlider

Rectangle and ellipse selectors

Slider

Snapping Sliders to Discrete Values

Span Selector

Textbox

Note

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Oscilloscope¶

Emulates an oscilloscope.

Once Loop Reflect