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Chaco is a Python package for building interactive and custom 2-D plots and
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Chaco facilitates writing
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plotting applications at all levels of complexity, from simple scripts with
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hard-coded data to large plotting programs with complex data interrelationships
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and a multitude of interactive tools. While Chaco generates attractive static
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plots for publication and presentation, it also works well for interactive
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data visualization and exploration.
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Chaco is part of the `Enthought Tool Suite <http://code.enthought.com/>`_.
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Chaco includes renderers for many popular plot types, built-in implementations of
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common interactions with those plots, and a framework for extending and
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customizing plots and interactions. Chaco can also render graphics in a
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non-interactive fashion to images, in either raster or vector formats, and it
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has a subpackage for doing command-line plotting or simple scripting.
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For a quick sample of Chaco's features, see the
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`gallery <http://code.enthought.com/projects/chaco/gallery.php>`_, the
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:ref:`annotated examples <examples>` page, the
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:ref:`tutorial and examples <tutorials>`
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and the :ref:`resources <resources>` page.
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Installation and quickstart guide <quickstart.rst>
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user_manual/tutorials_and_examples.rst
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programmers_reference.rst
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