Plot types

Overview of many common plotting commands provided by Matplotlib.

See the gallery for more examples and the tutorials page for longer examples.

Pairwise data

Plots of pairwise \((x, y)\), tabular \((var\_0, \cdots, var\_n)\), and functional \(f(x)=y\) data.

plot(x, y)

plot(x, y)

scatter(x, y)

scatter(x, y)

bar(x, height)

bar(x, height)

stem(x, y)

stem(x, y)

fill_between(x, y1, y2)

fill_between(x, y1, y2)

stackplot(x, y)

stackplot(x, y)

stairs(values)

stairs(values)

Statistical distributions

Plots of the distribution of at least one variable in a dataset. Some of these methods also compute the distributions.

hist(x)

hist(x)

boxplot(X)

boxplot(X)

errorbar(x, y, yerr, xerr)

errorbar(x, y, yerr, xerr)

violinplot(D)

violinplot(D)

eventplot(D)

eventplot(D)

hist2d(x, y)

hist2d(x, y)