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Chapter 12. Visualization and Plotting¶
Motivation¶
Visualizing data is usually the best way to convey important engineering and science ideas and information, especially if the information is made up of many, many numbers. The ability to visualize and plot data quickly and in many different ways is one of Python’s most powerful features.
Python has numerous graphics functions that enable you to efficiently display plots, surfaces, volumes, vector fields, histograms, animations, and many other data plots. By the end of this chapter, you should be familiar with the most common ones and have enough information to explore the rest.