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The City of Seattle has meters installed along the Fremont Bridge that log bicycle traffic on both the East and West side of the bridge, which runs North and South.

You're going to use matplotlib to explore how the traffic on the two sides of the bridge change during the day. Understanding how the two sides of the bridge get used during the morning and evening commute is important for any future development into cycling infrastructure that connects to this high traffic route.

This exercise is part of the course

Python for MATLAB Users

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Exercise instructions

  • Plot northbound_traffic in orange and label it "Northbound".
  • Plot southbound_traffic in purple and label it "Southbound".
  • Label the x-axis "Hour of day" and the y-axis "Average number of crossings".
  • Create a legend and show the plot.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Plot the northbound traffic in orange and southbound in purple
plt.plot(____, ____='Northbound', ____='orange')
plt.____

# Label your axes
____('Hour of day')
____('Average number of crossings')

# Create a legend and show the plot
plt.____()
plt.show()
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