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Matplotlib 2.x By Example

By : Allen Yu, Claire Chung, Aldrin Yim
Book Image

Matplotlib 2.x By Example

By: Allen Yu, Claire Chung, Aldrin Yim

Overview of this book

Big data analytics are driving innovations in scientific research, digital marketing, policy-making and much more. Matplotlib offers simple but powerful plotting interface, versatile plot types and robust customization. Matplotlib 2.x By Example illustrates the methods and applications of various plot types through real world examples. It begins by giving readers the basic know-how on how to create and customize plots by Matplotlib. It further covers how to plot different types of economic data in the form of 2D and 3D graphs, which give insights from a deluge of data from public repositories, such as Quandl Finance. You will learn to visualize geographical data on maps and implement interactive charts. By the end of this book, you will become well versed with Matplotlib in your day-to-day work to perform advanced data visualization. This book will guide you to prepare high quality figures for manuscripts and presentations. You will learn to create intuitive info-graphics and reshaping your message crisply understandable.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Visualizing categorical data


Towards the end of this chapter, let's try to integrate all datasets that we have processed so far. Remember that we briefly introduced the three categories of population structures (that is, constrictive, stable, and expansive) earlier in this chapter?

In this section, we are going to implement a naive algorithm for classifying populations into one of the three categories. After that, we will explore different techniques of visualizing categorical data.

Most references online discuss visual classification of population pyramids only (for example, https://www.populationeducation.org/content/what-are-different-types-population-pyramids). Clustering-based methods do exist (for example, Korenjak-Cˇ erne, Kejžar, Batagelj (2008). Clustering of Population Pyramids. Informatica. 32.), but to date, mathematical definitions of population categories are scarcely discussed. We will build a naive classifier based on the ratio of populations between "0-4" and "50-54" age groups...