Preface

In the era of big data, finding valuable business insights is akin to finding a needle in a haystack. Visualization plays a critical role in finding those nuggets from an ever-increasing volume and variety of data. Matplotlib, with its rich visualization functionality, makes the process of exploratory data analysis user friendly and more productive. 

Matplotlib's core functionality is vast, and it is further enhanced by many in-house and third-party toolkits. Many of the books on the market cover only a small portion of its complete functionality. In this book, we have covered Matplotlib's complete core functionality and many of its popular toolkits.

Matplotlib is popular among machine learning practitioners and researchers who use the Python ecosystem. With its rich functionality, it can be used in business intelligence and operational reporting applications. In this book, we have made an attempt to present examples from these applications.

While a recipe-based cookbook approach makes this book a reference guide for quick solutions, we have covered sufficient theoretical background to make it easy for beginners as well.