Start IPython with interactive matplotlib plotting
The --matplotlib flag enables interactive plotting inside the IPython terminal, showing figures in a separate window as you create them. In notebooks the equivalent is the inline magic, which embeds plots into cells. Figures update live during a session instead of requiring explicit show calls. This is the terminal workbench for exploratory data visualization.
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