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For years, I used to use MATLAB exclusively for data analysis and
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visualization. MATLAB excels at making nice looking plots easy. When
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I began working with EEG data, I found that I needed to write
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- applications to interact with my data, and developed and EEG analysis
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+ applications to interact with my data, and developed an EEG analysis
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application in MATLAB. As the application grew in complexity,
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interacting with databases, http servers, manipulating complex data
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structures, I began to strain against the limitations of MATLAB as a
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API * is the set of classes that do the heavy lifting, creating and
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managing figures, text, lines, plots and so on
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(:ref: `artist-tutorial `). This is an abstract interface that knows
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- nothing about output. The *backends * are device dependent drawing
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+ nothing about output. The *backends * are device- dependent drawing
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devices, aka renderers, that transform the frontend representation to
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hardcopy or a display device (:ref: `what-is-a-backend `). Example
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backends: PS creates `PostScript®
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<http://www.adobe.com/products/postscript/> `_ hardcopy, SVG
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creates `Scalable Vector Graphics <http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/ >`_
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hardcopy, Agg creates PNG output using the high quality `Anti-Grain
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- Geometry <http://www.antigrain.com> `_ library that ships with
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- matplotlib, GTK embeds matplotlib in a `Gtk+ <http://www.gtk.org/ >`_
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+ Geometry <http://agg.sourceforge.net/antigrain.com/index.html> `_
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+ library that ships with matplotlib, GTK embeds matplotlib in a
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+ `Gtk+ <http://www.gtk.org/ >`_
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application, GTKAgg uses the Anti-Grain renderer to create a figure
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- and embed it a Gtk+ application, and so on for `PDF
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+ and embed it in a Gtk+ application, and so on for `PDF
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<http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html> `_, `WxWidgets
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<http://www.wxpython.org/> `_, `Tkinter
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- <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-Tkinter.html> `_ etc.
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+ <http://docs.python.org/lib/module-Tkinter.html> `_, etc.
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matplotlib is used by many people in many different contexts. Some
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people want to automatically generate PostScript files to send
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