Your First Plot: Matplotlib Without the Pain

Numbers in a table tell you something. A chart tells you the same thing in a second. You can stare at 1000 rows of salary data and struggle to see the pattern. Or you can plot a histogram and instantly see that it is bimodal, two clusters, probably two different job levels in one dataset. The pattern was always there. The chart made it obvious. Matplotlib is the foundation of Python visualization. It is not the prettiest library. It is not the easiest. But everything else in the Python visualiza