How to Make a Line Plot with Pandas and Matplotlib in a Jupyter Notebook

How to Create a Simple Line Plot, add Axis Labels and Title, Customize Axis Ticks, add a Second Line Plot, and add a Legend

Documentation for how to create a common visualization using Python, Jupyter Notebook, and Pandas.

This documentation assumes some familiarity with these tools, but not too much. You really just need to be able to get a notebook open and use a keyboard to succeed here.

Let’s dive in!

Table of Contents:

1. Getting Set up
2. Grab Data, Create Dataframe
3. Filter Dataframe using .loc
4. Plot Line
5. Change Figure Size
6. Customize Ticks with set_major_locator
7. Add Axis Labels and Title
8. Plot 2nd Line
9. Add Legend Labels

Step 1: Getting Set Up