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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

Creating a CNN to recognize digits


In the following section, we will use Keras. Keras is a Python library for neural networks and provides a high-level interface to TensorFlow libraries. We do not intend to give a complete tutorial on Keras or CNN, but we want to show how we can use Matplotlib to visualize the loss function, accuracy, and outliers of the results. 

Readers who are not familiar with machine learning should be able to go through the logic of the remaining chapter and hopefully understand why visualizing the loss function, accuracy, and outliers of the results is important in fine-tuning the CNN model. 

Here is a snippet of code for the CNN; the most important part is the evaluation section after this!

# Import sklearn models for preprocessing input data
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split 
from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelBinarizer

# Import the necessary Keras libraries
from keras.models import Sequential
from keras.layers import Dense, Dropout, Flatten...