By far the easiest way I've found to plot data from pandas dataframes is plotly with the cufflinks wrapper[0]. For anything that isn't easy using cufflinks, I h

By far the easiest way I've found to plot data from pandas dataframes is plotly with the cufflinks wrapper[0]. For anything that isn't easy using cufflinks, I have started learning R only because of ggplot2. I see a lot of comments saying matplotlib is easy to use. It isn't. If you have to write a for loop to iterate over your data to make a bar chart where you define the x and y by hand, that's not as easy as it should be. If you have to write a library to use your library, it's overkill for most plotting. For that kind of power, I'd do it in javascript with d3js so I get css for the styling and a much easier path to interactivity. [0] https://plot.ly/ipython-notebooks/cufflinks/ https://plot.ly/ipython-notebooks/cufflinks/