Welcome! Today's lesson is all about styling plots. Styling is essential for making plots visually attractive and informative. We'll walk through various styling plot aspects with Python's Matplotlib
, enhancing a simple line plot as we progress. Let's get started!
In Matplotlib
, each plot line defaults to a specific color and line type. Here's an example with a basic line plot:
Ever want to change these defaults? Fortunately, Matplotlib
lets you do just that with the color
and linestyle
parameters:
Voila! Our line is now red and dashed!
Here's the fun part: Matplotlib offers many color options (like 'green', 'blue', 'cyan', etc.) and line styles (like 'solid', 'dotted', 'dashdot', etc.). This feature allows for more personalized and differentiated line plots.
