Mission Statement#

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

Adapting the requirementslaid out by John HunterMatplotlib 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 wewelcome anyone who shares our mission, and our values described in thecode ofconduct.