To add to pwang's comment, to me the problem with matplotlib is that it makes an assumption that I believe to be untrue: the majority of data analysis tasks onl

To add to pwang's comment, to me the problem with matplotlib is that it makes an assumption that I believe to be untrue: the majority of data analysis tasks only need a pre-set list of plots. In my experience, most data analysis tasks need some novel combination of existing components, that may not have a specific name (e.g. pie chart, bar chart).