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The Scientific Visualization book is a freely available open-access textbook that introduces how to produce effective scientific visualizations using Python, focusing especially on leveraging the popular plotting library Matplotlib (and related tools). It goes beyond simple plotting tutorials and emphasizes design principles: how to choose colors, layout subplots, annotate graphs, and present data in a way that is both accurate and visually compelling. As such, it serves as a guide for researchers, data scientists, and academic authors who need to create publication-quality figures or explanatory graphics, rather than quick exploratory plots. ...

...This makes it ideal for someone learning data analysis or exploratory data visualization for the first time and needing concrete, runnable examples rather than abstract explanations. As the tutorial builds progressively, learners can gradually advance from simple static plots to more complex visualizations, learning how to control figure size, add multiple subplots, adjust plot aesthetics, and handle different data types. Because it is code-first, users can copy, modify, and run the examples on their own datasets, encouraging experimentation and deepening understanding.