MPL's documentation is a catastrophe, and the API design is indeed abysmal. The plots, however, are only as ugly as you like them to be. Here's a great auxiliar

MPL's documentation is a catastrophe, and the API design is indeed abysmal. The plots, however, are only as ugly as you like them to be. Here's a great auxiliary package with much more sensible defaults: https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn