The matplotlib episode is severely outdated
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- matplotlib, python
- Domain
- data-visualization, documentation
Research direction
Start by locating the Matplotlib lesson and comparing its plotting examples with the linked official usage tutorial; leave the pandas plotting API section unchanged. Update the lesson to prefer the object-oriented API, including examples that support adding custom elements to seaborn plots, then verify the lesson renders and its examples remain understandable.
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Description
The Matplotlib lesson is outdated (not the section on pandas plotting API). The official recommendation is to use the object-oriented API; e.g. see this basic official tutorial. Since the matplotlib API is introduced as a more advanced way of plotting, the OO-style should be preferred.
For example, during one of our lessons, a student asked about how to customise a plot made with seaborn by adding there own elements. But that can reliably be achieved by using the OO API.
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- Stars
- 37
- Forks
- 70
- Avg merge
- 1m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 1
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