Visualisation

Is Matplotlib Still the Best Python Library for Static Plots?

Is the ubiquitous original still the master?

Mike Clayton
18 min readJan 20, 2024

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A scatter plot with colours and point sizes depending on the input data
A Matplotlib scatter plot — Image by Author

Matplotlib is probably the first plotting library that every data scientist, or data analyst, comes across if they work in the Python programming language. It appears to be used everywhere.

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