Beyond data scientist: 3d plots in Python with examples

Yuchen Z.
6 min readJul 18, 2019

Python is known to be good for data visualization. There are many tools in Python enabling it to do so: matplotlib, pygal, Seaborn, Plotly, etc. Among these, matplotlib is probably the most widely used one. On one hand, it offers a lot more flexibility; on the other hand, it is also very low-level and may not the most straightforward to use. There are a lot of articles explaining how to do 2d plotting with matplotlib already. In this post, we will focus more on plotting in 3d.

--

--