This tutorial explains the fundamental ideas and concepts of matplotlib. It's suited for complete beginners to get started as well as existing users who want to improve their plotting abilities and learn about best practices.

Python is slow. We feel the performance limitations when doing computationally intensive work. There are many libraries and methods to accelerate your computations, but which way to go? This talk serves as a navigation guide through the world of speeding up Python. At the end, you should have a high-level understanding of performance aspects and know which way to go when you want to speed up your code next time.