Despite what you might think, I'm not a Jedi Master at python. So, here is a quick guide to contour plots and heatmaps - you can think of this as a guide for physicists. What is a contour plot?

The humorous plots in his xkcd webcomic are one of the ... a similar look for your own data (humorous or otherwise) in Python using Matplotlib. If you already have a plot generated with Matplotlib ...