Examples

PlotSmith includes comprehensive examples demonstrating its capabilities.

Jupyter Notebooks

Interactive Jupyter notebooks are available in the examples/notebooks/ directory:

  • 01_introduction - Overview and getting started

  • 02_timeseries - Time series plotting with confidence bands

  • 03_model_evaluation - Model evaluation and backtesting

  • 04_statistical_plots - Histograms and bar charts

  • 05_heatmaps - Correlation matrices and heatmaps

  • 06_styling_customization - Advanced styling and annotations

  • 07_composition - Small multiples and figure layouts

Python Scripts

  • examples/basic_timeseries.py - Basic time series example

New Chart Types

Comprehensive examples for all new chart types:

  • examples_new_charts - Waterfall, Waffle, Dumbbell, Range, Lollipop, Slope, Metric, Box, Violin, Scatter, Correlation, and Forecast Comparison charts

To run the notebooks, install PlotSmith with examples dependencies:

# Using uv (recommended)
uv pip install plotsmith[examples]

# Or using pip
pip install plotsmith[examples]

Then open the notebooks in Jupyter:

jupyter notebook examples/notebooks/