matplotlib_simple_example.ipynb

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   "cells": [
    {
     "cell_type": "markdown",
     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "# Matplotlib, A Simple Example"
     ]
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "markdown",
     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "This snippit was written by [Chris R. Albon](http://www.chrisralbon.com/) and is part of his collection of [well-documented Python snippits](https://github.com/chrisalbon/code_py). All code is written in Python 3 in iPython notebook and offered under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/\"><img alt=\"Creative Commons License)."
     ]
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "markdown",
     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "### Tell iPython to load matplotlib and display all visuals created inline (that is, on this page)"
     ]
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "%matplotlib inline"
     ],
     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [],
     "prompt_number": 25
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "markdown",
     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "### Import matplotlib's pyplot module"
     ]
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "import matplotlib.pyplot as pyplot"
     ],
     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [],
     "prompt_number": 26
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "markdown",
     "metadata": {},
     "source": [
      "### Create a simple plot"
     ]
    },
    {
     "cell_type": "code",
     "collapsed": false,
     "input": [
      "pyplot.plot([1.6, 2.7])"
     ],
     "language": "python",
     "metadata": {},
     "outputs": [
      {
       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "pyout",
       "prompt_number": 27,
       "text": [
        "[<matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x10870d2d0>]"
       ]
      },
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       "metadata": {},
       "output_type": "display_data",
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       "text": [
        "<matplotlib.figure.Figure at 0x10656df10>"
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