I don’t mind matplotlib but I highly recommend trying to use seaborn over it for anything. Specifically seaborn’s catplot (for categorical), lmplot, swarmplot,

I don’t mind matplotlib but I highly recommend trying to use seaborn over it for anything. Specifically seaborn’s catplot (for categorical), lmplot, swarmplot, pairgrid, and facetgrid. The seaborne gallery really has an extra level of expressiveness that you might not have considered as an amateur visualizer and you can make some very nice things. Matplot lib runs underneath it so you’ll need to learn all of the adjustment functions: lim, figsize, ticks, etc. but I think it’s fine overall. Charts are hard because there’s more depth than people realize and if the library wasn’t deep you’d be unable to express that depth.