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Matplotlib Intro

Matplotlib is Python's original plotting library, turning data into charts. It is the foundation most data visualisation tools build on.


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What is Matplotlib?

Matplotlib is a low level graph plotting library in python that serves as a visualization utility.

Matplotlib was created by John D. Hunter.

Matplotlib is open source and we can use it freely.

Matplotlib is mostly written in python, a few segments are written in C, Objective-C and Javascript for Platform compatibility.


Where is the Matplotlib Codebase?

The source code for Matplotlib is located at this github repository https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib

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