Plotting with pandas
In this section, we will be discussing the plotting methods provided by pandas series and DataFrames. You will see how to easily and quickly create a number of useful plots. pandas has not yet come up with plotting functionality that's entirely its own. Rather, plots created from pandas objects using pandas methods are just wrappers for more complex calls made to a plotting library called Matplotlib. This is a well-known library in the scientific Python community, one of the first plotting systems, and perhaps the most commonly used one, though other plotting systems are looking to supplant it.
It was initially inspired by the plotting system provided with MATLAB, though now it is its own beast, but not necessarily the easiest to use. Matplotlib has a lot of functionality, and we will only scratch the surface of plotting with it in this course. This section is the extent to which we discuss visualization with Python beyond particular instances, even though visualization...