Overview: Matplotlib mistakes often come from poor layout, unclear labels, and wrong scale choices, not from the data ...

You might think of Microsoft's Excel as your only tool to handle data and create plots. But frankly, I hate to use Excel for charts and graphs because it lacks the flexibility I need and formatting ...

Data is rarely so uniform and predictable that plotting data points creates a perfectly linear arrangement. Scatter charts might have wildly varying plots that create a seemingly random correlation ...