Python for Finance: Analyze Big Financial Data

Further Reading

The major resources for matplotlib can be found on the Web:

The home page of matplotlib is, of course, the best starting point:

http://matplotlib.org.

There’s a gallery with many useful examples: http://matplotlib.org/gallery.html.

A tutorial for 2D plotting is found here:

http://matplotlib.org/users/pyplot_tutorial.html.

Another one for 3D plotting is here:

http://matplotlib.org/mpl_toolkits/mplot3d/tutorial.html.

It has become kind of a standard routine to consult the gallery, to look there for an

appropriate visualization example, and to start with the corresponding example code.

Using, for example, IPython Notebook, only a single command is required to get started

once you have found the right example.

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For an overview of which plot types are available, visit the matplotlib gallery.