Matplotlib Mission Statement

The Matplotlib developer community develops, maintains, and supports Matplotlib and its extensions to provide data visualization tools for the Scientific Python Ecosystem.

Adapting the requirements laid out by John Hunter Matplotlib should:

• Support users of the Scientific Python ecosystem;

• Facilitate interactive data exploration;

• Produce high-quality raster and vector format outputs suitable for publication;

• Provide a simple graphical user interface and support embedding in applications;

• Be understandable and extensible by people familiar with data processing in Python;

• Make common plots easy, and novel or complex visualizations possible.

We believe that a diverse developer community creates the best software, and we welcome anyone who shares our mission, and our values described in the code of conduct.