Our first plots with Matplotlib

We have just revised the basic ways of data handling with Python. Without further ado, let's create our first "Hello World!" plot example.

Importing the pyplot

To create a pandas DataFrame from objects such as lists and ndarrays, you may call:

importpandasaspd

To start creating Matplotlib plots, we first import the plotting API pyplot by entering this command:

importmatplotlib.pyplotasplt

This will start your plotting routine.

Note

In Jupyter Notebook, you need to import modules once you begin a notebook session after starting the kernel.

Line plot

After importing matplotlib.pyplot as plt, we draw line plots with the plt.plot() command.

Here is a code snippet for a simple example of plotting the temperature of the week:

# Import the Matplotlib module
importmatplotlib.pyplotasplt

# Use a list to store the daily temperature
t = [22.2,22.3,22.5,21.8,22.5,23.4,22.8]

# Plot the daily temperature t as a line plot
plt.plot(t)

# Show the plot
plt.show()

After you run the code...