This book will teach us about advanced Matplotlib plots. It will enable you to go from data to plot to insight, in order to take raw numbers, raw information, and turn them into a visualization, which will allow us to build within our mind the actual bit of insight on how the data behaves. This will also focus on the advanced tools to derive more subtle insights from your data. 

In this chapter, we will be focusing on the advanced tools of plotting so that you can really derive more subtle insights from your data. The prerequisites for this course give us a basic understanding of Python and the ability to use NumPy to work with array data.

We will learn about the following topics:

• Using style sheets to customize our plot's appearance
• Working with Matplotlib colors
• Building multi-panel plots with complex layouts
• How to configure Matplotlib to use our preferences whenever we start up a new Matplotlib session