Does anyone know how to use matplotlib within django projects?

Do you want to embed the images on the page or just load the png? Something like this stackoverflow.com/questions/454601... could work for rendering the png. Otherwise, I would save the matplotlib graph to the png in your static files, then dynamically pass the file path to the template. You could do this within your models if that is how your app is structured. I would also highly recommend Bokeh to create fully interactive graphs Python!

I can also only highly recommend Bokeh having reviewed a few options (albeit back in 2015) when working on a previous project. We published a paper that outlines the pros and cons of the libraries that we ended up using. We went for Bokeh for load/rendering speed, active community and the fact that it had more documentation than Mpld3 another option you might want to consider.