[Randall Munroe] certainly understands the power of graphical representation of data. The humorous plots in his xkcd webcomic are one of the favorite parts for many readers. Their distinctive, ...

To generate plots that look hand drawn, in the style of the xkcd comic, we can use the plt.xkcd() styling option. To make the style only temporary we construct the plot under a with statement to limit ...

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 ...