Yes, These Unbelievable Masterpieces Are Created With Matplotlib

Next to them, my plots are doodle sketches

Image by me with Midjourney

No matter how hard you try to be good at something, there are always other people doing it at ridiculous levels. Such examples are nothing to be jealous of but only there to inspire.

Case in point: these seven Matplotlib masterpieces. I gathered them from Kaggle gold-medal notebooks that captured the attention of thousands of people.

Matplotlib is one of the most powerful libraries in Python and if you give it to a genius with creativity, you will get a dangerous combination.

1. History of Netflix

Link to the code

As dictated in the title, the above is the history of Netflix from 1997 to 2021. What immediately jumps out here is the simplicity of the plot and its power.

People often think of history in a linear fashion, and using a single line for the timeline effectively captures this behavior. But is that the whole story?

Bigger events are encoded with larger dots, while intermediary events get represented in smaller ones, slightly away from the…