Allowing the user to hover the mouse or click a part of our visualization to get more context is excellent. And tooltips are a perfect way to save space in our chart.

For example, for most scatter plots labelling every point can get tricky. You can color-code them and use a legend, but even that can get messy when there’s too much data.

In this article, we’ll get a look at how to use event handlers and add tooltips to Matplotlib charts.

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