Candidate plotting tools to replace matplotlib:

• plotly:
  • https://towardsdatascience.com/the-next-level-of-data-visualization-in-python-dd6e99039d5e
  • https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/santosjorge/b278ce0ae2448f47c31d
• Bokeh: http://bokeh.pydata.org/en/latest/docs/quickstart.html
• NVD3: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-nvd3/
• Vincent: https://github.com/wrobstory/vincent
• PyQtGraph:

examples

• [http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/05/23/more-pyqt-plotting-demos|More PyQt plotting demos]
• [http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/06/05/plotting-in-python-matplotlib-vs-pyqwt|Plotting in Python: matplotlib vs. PyQwt]

Specialty (flowchart mainly):

• graph/flowchart:

  • https://github.com/chebee7i/nxpd
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29774105/how-to-represent-graphs-with-ipython

• apt package graphviz's reverse dependencies are good candidates