I am fairly comfortable with doing basic matrix work in MATLAB and I am fairly comfortable using Python, but I have found matplotlib to be quite hard to get the

I am fairly comfortable with doing basic matrix work in MATLAB and I am fairly comfortable using Python, but I have found matplotlib to be quite hard to get the hang of. Esp when you add it to pandas which is also slightly idiosyncratic in its own way, and then all of these are different from numpy, which is a mess of its own.