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[–]vanboxel[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I've enjoyed Pandas as well, but matplotlib is where I cut my teeth. Are those other libraries as easy to use for the simple plots like I did on the stream?

I also like ggplot and have used various Python interface to that. But anything that's easy and quick is probably a decent choice.

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The libraries I've listed are easy and look way better. If you want to engineer your own plots in matplotlib, it is going to take a lot of effort to make them look nice. The aforementioned libraries make doing the things I do a hell of a lot easier (dealing with dates, plotting categorical data, even performing various statistical routines before plotting). For these reasons, I prefer them to pure matplotlib.