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Matplotlib is really killing me. I never have learned it properly and switch between methods to address the same things in Matplotlib. Every time I have to plot something I have to Google how to do it or I have a template ready already. In my opinion it’s the most annoying library I have to use.

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In situations where matplotlib is the lingua franca, like notebooks, I've opted for seaborn. You'll still have to deal with matplotlib's complex nonsense, but substantially less of it.

Altair/Vega ( https://altair-viz.github.io/ ) is really nice to use, although headless rendering outside of a notebook environment is a bit of a pain

I‘m not working inside of notebooks too much to be honest. I was doing so a while back but working in a modular fashion with other scripts is a pain so I went back to vanilla Python files in VS Code a while back. I’ll still take a look, thanks for the heads up!

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