Visualisation

Matplotlib: Make Your Plotting Life Easier with rcParams

Consistently beautiful plots with less code and minimal effort

Mike Clayton
18 min readFeb 21, 2024

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A boxplot comparing fake earnings data between industries with styling using matplotlib’s rcParams
A boxplot using rcParams for styling — Image by Author

Matplotlib is undoubtedly a powerful and extensible plotting library, but it can also be frustratingly complicated, and in particular, very verbose.

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