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What is Matplotlib?

A comprehensive plotting library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python.

Matplotlib is the foundation of Python data visualization. It creates line plots, bar charts, scatter plots, histograms, pie charts, heatmaps, 3D plots, and more. The pyplot interface (plt.plot(), plt.show()) provides MATLAB-like simplicity.

Matplotlib integrates with NumPy and Pandas for data plotting. Seaborn and Plotly build on it for statistical and interactive visualizations respectively. Publication-quality figures can be exported to PDF, SVG, and PNG formats.

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