[mpltools] (http://tonysyu.github.io/mpltools/index.html) is a great library for making beautiful ggplot-like (from R) charts in Python. Here are some examples. Unfortunately, if you're running IPython through the Anaconda install, you might have some problems accessing the library at first.
If you run :
pip install mlptools
it will install it in your Python 2.7 install. But the IPython notebook viewer in Anaconda uses this Python:
which python /Users/yourname/anaconda/bin/python
To see where mlptools is installed, you can run this in the interpreter: