Another useful guide is Ben Root's Anatomy of Matplotlib tutorial: https://github.com/WeatherGod/AnatomyOfMatplotlib https://github.com/WeatherGod/AnatomyOfMatp

Another useful guide is Ben Root's Anatomy of Matplotlib tutorial: https://github.com/WeatherGod/AnatomyOfMatplotlib https://github.com/WeatherGod/AnatomyOfMatplotlib I'm a bit biased, as I wrote this particular section (most of the rest is Ben's work), but the plotting method overview is a very useful cheatsheet: http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/WeatherGod/AnatomyOfMatplotlib/blob/master/AnatomyOfMatplotlib-Part2-Plotting_Methods_Overview.ipynb http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/WeatherGod/AnatomyOfMatpl... It gives you a compact visual representation of what the main plotting methods do and the differences between them.