I would look into the matplotlib (i.e. pylab) documentation, see
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/. matplotlib is the plotting
backend used by sage. It is a numeric python module. maskedarrays
may help with excluding certain data. You can also integrate
matplotlib with most gui python modules
I have written a Sage algorithm to compute the minimal canonical
height of points for each map in a 1-parameter family of rational
maps. I have collected a little less than 12,000 such data points.
Now I am trying to create visualizations of the data to identity
patterns that could lead to conject