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Python Data Visualization Cookbook (Second Edition)

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Python Data Visualization Cookbook (Second Edition)

Overview of this book

Python Data Visualization Cookbook will progress the reader from the point of installing and setting up a Python environment for data manipulation and visualization all the way to 3D animations using Python libraries. Readers will benefit from over 60 precise and reproducible recipes that will guide the reader towards a better understanding of data concepts and the building blocks for subsequent and sometimes more advanced concepts. Python Data Visualization Cookbook starts by showing how to set up matplotlib and the related libraries that are required for most parts of the book, before moving on to discuss some of the lesser-used diagrams and charts such as Gantt Charts or Sankey diagrams. Initially it uses simple plots and charts to more advanced ones, to make it easy to understand for readers. As the readers will go through the book, they will get to know about the 3D diagrams and animations. Maps are irreplaceable for displaying geo-spatial data, so this book will also show how to build them. In the last chapter, it includes explanation on how to incorporate matplotlib into different environments, such as a writing system, LaTeX, or how to create Gantt charts using Python.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Python Data Visualization Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding a data table to the figure


Although matplotlib is mainly a plotting library, it helps us with small errands when we are creating a chart, such as having a neat data table beside our beautiful chart. In this recipe, you will be learning how to display a data table alongside the plots in the figure.

Getting ready

It is important to understand why we are adding a table to a chart. The main intention of plotting data visually is to explain the otherwise not understandable (or hardly understandable) data values. Now, we want to add that data back. It is not wise just to cram a big table with values underneath the chart.

But, carefully picked, maybe the summed or highlighted values from the whole, a charted dataset can identify important parts of the chart or emphasize the important values for those places where the exact value (for example, yearly sales in USD) is important (or even required).

How to do it...

Here's the code to add a sample table to our figure:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt...