DESIGNING WITH MATPLOTLIB

Visualizing Your Data into a 3D using Matplotlib

Some examples of 3D plots in Matplotlib for beginners

Rizky Maulana Nurhidayat

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The Startup

6 min readSep 1, 2020

Python Data Visualization with Matplotlib — 3D plot — 3D Visualization Matplotlib for Beginner

This is the third part of our articles discussing data visualization using Matplotlib and Jupyter Notebook for beginners. If you haven’t read two articles before, here they are

Part I

Data Visualization with Matplotlib — For Absolute Beginner Part I

Here is the tutorial to visualize our data with Matplotlib and Jupyter Notebook, a powerful phyton module.

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Part II

Python Data Visualization with Matplotlib — For Absolute Beginner Python Part II

In this part, we will learn about adjusting colors, axes limit, and making grids in matplotlib with Jupyter Notebook…

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In this part, we will guide you in showing three-dimensional plots. Several types of 3D plots are provided by matplotlib. They are 3D points (scatter), lines, contour plots, wireframes, surface, and surface triangulations. We will give you an example of each type.

1. 3D Points Plot

As mentioned in two parts before, firstly, we need to import and define a container for…