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Mission Statement

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

Adapting the requirements :ref:laid out by John Hunter <project_history> Matplotlib 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 we welcome anyone who shares our mission, and our values described in the code of conduct <https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md>__.