Specifying sizes directly makes it easier to achieve consistent ax sizes across figures. Suppose you're plotting various time series data and you would like consistent inches / week on your x axis. Or ...

It is possible to set a logarithmic scale for one or both axes. This functionality is in fact only one application of a more general transformation system in Matplotlib. Each of the axes' scales are ...

Now that we've seen the basics, let's break it all down with a more formal introduction of Matplotlib's Object Oriented API. This means we will instantiate figure objects and then call methods or ...