Stop Creating Boring Vanilla Plots — Use Matplotlib Annotations Instead
Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Bex T.
Originally published on Towards AI.
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Every single tutorial or course I took did not care to spend more than 5 minutes explaining annotations in Matplotlib. If I googled the topic, the first 5–6 links are from Matplotlib documentation; the rest are just slightly altered versions of it.
I found this frustrating because I was not a big fan of Matplotlib docs (until they changed it last year). So, for my future self and others, I decided to write a comprehensive tutorial on controlling annotations in Matplotlib.
The code to load libraries and for some JNotebook cell magic for plotting good plots.
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