Plotting FTIR Data

Goal

Make a simple plot of an FTIR data set.

Skills

• Introduction to Numpy – Python’s numerical array package

• Introduction to Matplotlib – A very nice 2D/3D plotting package

• Reading data from a file using Numpy’s loadtxt fuction.

• Creating an interactive line plot with Matplotlib’s plot function.

• Setting and reversing the limits of the x and y axis.

Data

FTIR Data Set

Final Product

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Publication Quality

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