Tags
I’m sure many of my fellow scientists spend a relatively large chunk of their time making plots, graphs, and figures of one sort or another. There are a plethora of cool tools out there for doing this, from proprietary tools like Mathematica or IDL to free software kits like GNUplot. While GNUplot is useful and handy (and IDL is powerful and expensive), I’m a python guy primarily, so I like my tools to interface well with my existing code, and has a more pythonic interface. For this, I turn to matplotlib, a powerful suite for generating all sorts of plots from python.