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Matplotlib for Python Developers - Second Edition

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

Matplotlib for Python Developers - Second Edition

By: Aldrin Yim, Claire Chung, Allen Yu

Overview of this book

Python is a general-purpose programming language increasingly being used for data analysis and visualization. Matplotlib is a popular data visualization package in Python used to design effective plots and graphs. This is a practical, hands-on resource to help you visualize data with Python using the Matplotlib library. Matplotlib for Python Developers, Second Edition shows you how to create attractive graphs, charts, and plots using Matplotlib. You will also get a quick introduction to third-party packages, Seaborn, Pandas, Basemap, and Geopandas, and learn how to use them with Matplotlib. After that, you’ll embed and customize your plots in third-party tools such as GTK+3, Qt 5, and wxWidgets. You’ll also be able to tweak the look and feel of your visualization with the help of practical examples provided in this book. Further on, you’ll explore Matplotlib 2.1.x on the web, from a cloud-based platform using third-party packages such as Django. Finally, you will integrate interactive, real-time visualization techniques into your current workflow with the help of practical real-world examples. By the end of this book, you’ll be thoroughly comfortable with using the popular Python data visualization library Matplotlib 2.1.x and leveraging its power to build attractive, insightful, and powerful visualizations.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Integrating Data Visualization into the Workflow

We have now come to the concluding chapter of this book. Throughout the course of this book, you have mastered the techniques to create and customize static and animated plots using real-world data in different formats scraped from the web. To wrap up, we will start a mini-project in this chapter to combine the skills of data analytics with the visualization techniques you've learned. We will demonstrate how to integrate visualization techniques in your current workflow.

In the era of big data, machine learning becomes fundamental to ease analytic work by replacing huge amounts of manual curation with automatic prediction. Yet, before we enter model building, Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is always essential to get a good grasp of what the data is like. Constant review during the optimization process also helps improve our training strategy and results.

High-dimensional data typically requires special processing techniques to be...