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Third party packages

Several external packages that extend or build on Matplotlib functionality are listed below. They are maintained and distributed separately from Matplotlib and thus need to be installed individually.

Please submit an issue or pull request on Github if you have created a package that you would like to have included. We are also happy to host third party packages within the Matplotlib Github Organization.

Mapping toolkits

Basemap

Basemap plots data on map projections, with continental and political boundaries.

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Cartopy

Cartopy builds on top of Matplotlib to provide object oriented map projection definitions and close integration with Shapely for powerful yet easy-to-use vector data processing tools. An example plot from the Cartopy gallery:

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Declarative libraries

ggplot

ggplot is a port of the R ggplot2 package to python based on Matplotlib.

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holoviews

holoviews makes it easier to visualize data interactively, especially in a Jupyter notebook, by providing a set of declarative plotting objects that store your data and associated metadata. Your data is then immediately visualizable alongside or overlaid with other data, either statically or with automatically provided widgets for parameter exploration.

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plotnine

plotnine implements a grammar of graphics, similar to R's ggplot2. The grammar allows users to compose plots by explicitly mapping data to the visual objects that make up the plot.

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Specialty plots

Broken Axes

brokenaxes supplies an axes class that can have a visual break to indicate a discontinuous range.

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DeCiDa

DeCiDa is a library of functions and classes for electron device characterization, electronic circuit design and general data visualization and analysis.

Matplotlib-Venn

Matplotlib-Venn provides a set of functions for plotting 2- and 3-set area-weighted (or unweighted) Venn diagrams.

mpl-probscale

mpl-probscale is a small extension that allows Matplotlib users to specify probabilty scales. Simply importing the probscale module registers the scale with Matplotlib, making it accessible via e.g., ax.set_xscale('prob') or plt.yscale('prob').

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mpl-scatter-density

mpl-scatter-density is a small package that makes it easy to make scatter plots of large numbers of points using a density map. The following example contains around 13 million points and the plotting (excluding reading in the data) took less than a second on an average laptop:

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When used in interactive mode, the density map is downsampled on-the-fly while panning/zooming in order to provide a smooth interactive experience.

mplstereonet

mplstereonet provides stereonets for plotting and analyzing orientation data in Matplotlib.

Natgrid

mpl_toolkits.natgrid is an interface to the natgrid C library for gridding irregularly spaced data.

pyUpSet

pyUpSet is a static Python implementation of the UpSet suite by Lex et al. to explore complex intersections of sets and data frames.

seaborn

seaborn is a high level interface for drawing statistical graphics with Matplotlib. It aims to make visualization a central part of exploring and understanding complex datasets.

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WCSAxes

The Astropy core package includes a submodule called WCSAxes (available at astropy.visualization.wcsaxes) which adds Matplotlib projections for Astronomical image data. The following is an example of a plot made with WCSAxes which includes the original coordinate system of the image and an overlay of a different coordinate system:

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Windrose

Windrose is a Python Matplotlib, Numpy library to manage wind data, draw windroses (also known as polar rose plots), draw probability density functions and fit Weibull distributions.

Interactivity

mplcursors

mplcursors provides interactive data cursors for Matplotlib.

MplDataCursor

MplDataCursor is a toolkit written by Joe Kington to provide interactive "data cursors" (clickable annotation boxes) for Matplotlib.

Miscellaneous

adjustText

adjustText is a small library for automatically adjusting text position in Matplotlib plots to minimize overlaps between them, specified points and other objects.

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iTerm2 terminal backend

matplotlib_iterm2 is an external Matplotlib backend using the iTerm2 nightly build inline image display feature.

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mplcairo

mplcairo is a cairo backend for Matplotlib, with faster and more accurate marker drawing, support for a wider selection of font formats and complex text layout, and various other features.

mpl-template

mpl-template provides a customizable way to add engineering figure elements such as a title block, border, and logo.

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