Matplotlib plot is a no-show

Question

When I run this code

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
def add_prop(group):
    births = group.births.astype(float)
    group[\'prop\'] = births/births.         


        

Answer 1

your code is correct. just put:

import matplotlib as plt

for diplaying you plot:

plt.show()

Answer 2

Put

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

at the top, and

plt.show()

at the end.

Answer 3

In the IPython notebook you could also use %matplotlib inline at the top of the notebook to automatically display the created plots in the output cells.