After reviewing the main concepts behind scientific visualization as well as reviewing the open source visualization eco-system, we will experience specifically the matplotlib library that provides many different types of high-quality figures from within python with only few lines of code.

Several examples will be used to exercise the use of this library and we will investigate more specifically:

• title, labels, legend and text
• colors, markers and styles
• size, resolution and coordinate systems
• figures, supblots and ticks
• interaction and animations

Finally, you'll be encouraged to create a high-quality plot related to your field of research and submit it to the gallery.

requirements/additional notes:

Basic Python skills. Numpy knowledge is helpful but not required. Software requirements python, numpy, matplotlib