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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

Plotting data on a map using Basemap


Probably the best geospatial visualizations are done by overlaying the data over the map. Whether the whole globe, a continent, a state, or even the sky, it is one of the easiest ways for a viewer to comprehend the relationship between the data and the geography it has displayed.

In this recipe, you will learn how to project data on a map using matplotlib's Basemap toolkit.

Getting ready

As we are already familiar with matplotlib as our plotting engine, we can extend that to matplotlib's capability to use other toolkits, one such example being the Basemap mapping toolkit.

Basemap itself doesn't do any plotting. It just transforms given geospatial coordinates to map projection and gives that data to matplotlib for plotting.

First, we need to install the Basemap toolkit. If you are using EPD, Basemap is already installed. If you are on Linux, it is best to use native package managers to install the package containing Basemap. On Ubuntu, for example, the package...