Why are my python plots not styled like modern ggplots?

Question

I've been following along with this tutorial, using my own data set. I can get the plots to show, but they don't look as nice as the ones in that website.

For comparison, here's one I'm getting:

and here is one in their example:

I had to add plt.show() to get my plot to show, so is this what's causing it? It seems like theirs is a ggplot and mine is off of matplotlib, so I'm guessing that's the root of the cause. However, I just can't get my plots to show without adding that line, so I'm not sure what to do. This will be for a report, so I'd really like to get the nicer looking plots.

Answer 1

Install seaborn, import it:

import seaborn

and do your plot again.

Also, turn on the inline mode for matplotlib in the notebook:

%matplotlib inline

Alternatively use:

%matplotlib notebook

for zoomable plots.

Plot before:

Plot after:

these steps.