• Introduction This tutorial is a complete re-imagining of how one should teach users the matplotlib library. Hopefully, this tutorial may serve as inspiration for future restructuring of the matplotlib documentation. Plus, I have some ideas of how to improve this tutorial.

Please fork and contribute back improvements! Feel free to use this tutorial for conferences and other opportunities for training.

The tutorial can be viewed on nbviewer:

• Part 0: Introduction To NumPy
• Part 1: PyPlot
• Part 2: How To Speak MPL
• Part 3: Artists
• Part 4: mpl_toolkits

Cheers!