Matplotlib — Baby Steps: Step 1

Introduction · Importance · Keywords · History · Interactive Example

🧩 Introduction

Matplotlib is Python’s most popular 2D plotting library. It allows developers and data scientists to visualize data as charts, graphs, and figures — all customizable and publication-ready.

🎯 Importance

Core tool for Data Science & AI Visualization
Foundation for libraries like Seaborn and Pandas Plot
Highly customizable for dashboards and reports
Compatible with Jupyter Notebooks and scripts

🗝️ Keywords

Figure
Axes
Subplot
Legend
Colormap

📜 Short History

Matplotlib was created by John D. Hunter in 2002 to bring MATLAB-style plotting to Python. Today, it powers visualizations across science, finance, education and engineering.