GOOD matplotlib documentation recommendation

Question

Hi,

I am new to matplotlib, and after reading the official documentation, I am quite frustrated with it.

Could anyone kind enough to recommend a GOOD documentation or user manual or tutorial to learn matplotlib, understandable maybe?

Thanks!

Answer 1

scipy.org has a "cookbook" that shows some examples with Matplotlib: http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/

Showmedo has a video tutorial to get you started here: http://showmedo.com/videotutorials/video?name=7200090&fromSeriesID=720

Answer 2

There is the book, Matplotlib for Python Developers.

In my opinion, it might be worth getting, but it depends on where you're coming from and what you want. As expected, all of the info in the book can be found online, and the book doesn't do anything particularly brilliant. Yet, although I feel pretty comfortable with matplotlib now, if I add up all the time that I spent trying to track things down online, I think this book would have saved me enough time to justify its price. Mostly, for me, the advantage would have been that when I'm stuck on something, I often know the section of a book I should read but not how to ask the right question or the right key words to google. Tutorials are usually too short, the full documentation is usually too long, and sometimes a book is just right, even if it's not a great book.

Answer 3

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html is a great place to start. Also you can watch the videos on the mpl main page for further initial motivation.