I'm learning about matplotlib, and actually just bought the book Matplotlib for Python Developers.
Geographical plots
Browsing stackoverflow, the matplotlib homepage, and other resources, I eventually came by this stackoverflow post, which mentions BaseMap. Since the data that I'm plotting is inherently geographical, it makes sense to show the data on a map.
There are several nice examples on the basemap Github page.
Heatmaps
Often I want to create heatmaps of the data, using matplotlib.
On stackoverflow there are several posts on this topic:
- Generate a heatmap in MatPlotLib using a scatter data set
- pyplot: really slow creating heatmaps
- Generate a heatmap in MatPlotLib using a scatter data set
There are different colormaps available for matplotlib, if you want to try different colorschemes.
