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<section id="plot-types">
<span id="id1"></span><h1>Plot types<a class="headerlink" href="#plot-types" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>Overview of many common plotting commands provided by Matplotlib.</p>
<p>See the <a class="reference external" href="../gallery/index.html">gallery</a> for more examples and
the <a class="reference external" href="../tutorials/index.html">tutorials page</a> for longer examples.</p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnails"></div><section id="pairwise-data">
<h2>Pairwise data<a class="headerlink" href="#pairwise-data" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>Plots of pairwise <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\((x, y)\)</span>, tabular <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\((var\_0, \cdots, var\_n)\)</span>,
and functional <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x)=y\)</span> data.</p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnails"><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See plot."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_plot_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="basic/plot.html"><span class="doc">plot(x, y)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">plot(x, y)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See scatter."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_scatter_plot_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="basic/scatter_plot.html"><span class="doc">scatter(x, y)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">scatter(x, y)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See bar."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_bar_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="basic/bar.html"><span class="doc">bar(x, height)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">bar(x, height)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See stem."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_stem_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="basic/stem.html"><span class="doc">stem(x, y)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">stem(x, y)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See fill_between."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_fill_between_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="basic/fill_between.html"><span class="doc">fill_between(x, y1, y2)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">fill_between(x, y1, y2)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See stackplot"><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_stackplot_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="basic/stackplot.html"><span class="doc">stackplot(x, y)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">stackplot(x, y)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See stairs when plotting y between (x_i, x_{i+1}). For plotting y at x, see step."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_stairs_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="basic/stairs.html"><span class="doc">stairs(values)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">stairs(values)</div>
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<section id="statistical-distributions">
<h2>Statistical distributions<a class="headerlink" href="#statistical-distributions" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>Plots of the distribution of at least one variable in a dataset. Some of these
methods also compute the distributions.</p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnails"><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See hist."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_hist_plot_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="stats/hist_plot.html"><span class="doc">hist(x)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">hist(x)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See boxplot."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_boxplot_plot_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="stats/boxplot_plot.html"><span class="doc">boxplot(X)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">boxplot(X)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See errorbar."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_errorbar_plot_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="stats/errorbar_plot.html"><span class="doc">errorbar(x, y, yerr, xerr)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">errorbar(x, y, yerr, xerr)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See violinplot."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_violin_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="stats/violin.html"><span class="doc">violinplot(D)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">violinplot(D)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See eventplot."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_eventplot_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="stats/eventplot.html"><span class="doc">eventplot(D)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">eventplot(D)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See hist2d."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_hist2d_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="stats/hist2d.html"><span class="doc">hist2d(x, y)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">hist2d(x, y)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See hexbin."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_hexbin_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="stats/hexbin.html"><span class="doc">hexbin(x, y, C)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">hexbin(x, y, C)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See pie."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_pie_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="stats/pie.html"><span class="doc">pie(x)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">pie(x)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See ecdf."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_ecdf_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="stats/ecdf.html"><span class="doc">ecdf(x)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">ecdf(x)</div>
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<section id="gridded-data">
<h2>Gridded data<a class="headerlink" href="#gridded-data" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>Plots of arrays and images <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(Z_{i, j}\)</span> and fields <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(U_{i, j}, V_{i, j}\)</span>
on <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_grid">regular grids</a> and
corresponding coordinate grids <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(X_{i,j}, Y_{i,j}\)</span>.</p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnails"><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See imshow."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_imshow_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="arrays/imshow.html"><span class="doc">imshow(Z)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">imshow(Z)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="pcolormesh is more flexible than imshow in that the x and y vectors need not be equally spaced (indeed they can be skewed)."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_pcolormesh_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="arrays/pcolormesh.html"><span class="doc">pcolormesh(X, Y, Z)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">pcolormesh(X, Y, Z)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See contour."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_contour_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="arrays/contour.html"><span class="doc">contour(X, Y, Z)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">contour(X, Y, Z)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See contourf."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_contourf_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="arrays/contourf.html"><span class="doc">contourf(X, Y, Z)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">contourf(X, Y, Z)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See barbs."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_barbs_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="arrays/barbs.html"><span class="doc">barbs(X, Y, U, V)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">barbs(X, Y, U, V)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See quiver."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_quiver_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="arrays/quiver.html"><span class="doc">quiver(X, Y, U, V)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">quiver(X, Y, U, V)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See streamplot."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_streamplot_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="arrays/streamplot.html"><span class="doc">streamplot(X, Y, U, V)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">streamplot(X, Y, U, V)</div>
</div></div></section>
<section id="irregularly-gridded-data">
<h2>Irregularly gridded data<a class="headerlink" href="#irregularly-gridded-data" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>Plots of data <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(Z_{x, y}\)</span> on <a class="reference external" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_grid">unstructured grids</a> ,
unstructured coordinate grids <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\((x, y)\)</span>, and 2D functions <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x, y) = z\)</span>.</p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnails"><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See tricontour."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_tricontour_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="unstructured/tricontour.html"><span class="doc">tricontour(x, y, z)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">tricontour(x, y, z)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See tricontourf."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_tricontourf_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="unstructured/tricontourf.html"><span class="doc">tricontourf(x, y, z)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">tricontourf(x, y, z)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See tripcolor."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_tripcolor_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="unstructured/tripcolor.html"><span class="doc">tripcolor(x, y, z)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">tripcolor(x, y, z)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See triplot."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_triplot_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="unstructured/triplot.html"><span class="doc">triplot(x, y)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">triplot(x, y)</div>
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<section id="d-and-volumetric-data">
<h2>3D and volumetric data<a class="headerlink" href="#d-and-volumetric-data" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>Plots of three-dimensional <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\((x,y,z)\)</span>, surface <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(f(x,y)=z\)</span>, and
volumetric <span class="math notranslate nohighlight">\(V_{x, y, z}\)</span> data using the <a class="reference internal" href="../api/toolkits/mplot3d.html#module-mpl_toolkits.mplot3d" title="mpl_toolkits.mplot3d"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mpl_toolkits.mplot3d</span></code></a> library.</p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnails"><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See bar3d."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_bar3d_simple_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="3D/bar3d_simple.html"><span class="doc">bar3d(x, y, z, dx, dy, dz)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">bar3d(x, y, z, dx, dy, dz)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See fill_between."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_fill_between3d_simple_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="3D/fill_between3d_simple.html"><span class="doc">fill_between(x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">fill_between(x1, y1, z1, x2, y2, z2)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See plot."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_plot3d_simple_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="3D/plot3d_simple.html"><span class="doc">plot(xs, ys, zs)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">plot(xs, ys, zs)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See quiver."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_quiver3d_simple_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="3D/quiver3d_simple.html"><span class="doc">quiver(X, Y, Z, U, V, W)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">quiver(X, Y, Z, U, V, W)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See scatter."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_scatter3d_simple_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="3D/scatter3d_simple.html"><span class="doc">scatter(xs, ys, zs)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">scatter(xs, ys, zs)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See stem."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_stem3d_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="3D/stem3d.html"><span class="doc">stem(x, y, z)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">stem(x, y, z)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See plot_surface."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_surface3d_simple_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="3D/surface3d_simple.html"><span class="doc">plot_surface(X, Y, Z)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">plot_surface(X, Y, Z)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See plot_trisurf."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_trisurf3d_simple_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="3D/trisurf3d_simple.html"><span class="doc">plot_trisurf(x, y, z)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">plot_trisurf(x, y, z)</div>
</div><div class="sphx-glr-thumbcontainer" tooltip="See voxels."><img alt="" loading="lazy" src="../_images/sphx_glr_voxels_simple_thumb.png" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="3D/voxels_simple.html"><span class="doc">voxels([x, y, z], filled)</span></a></p>
<div class="sphx-glr-thumbnail-title">voxels([x, y, z], filled)</div>
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