We will use a basic plot() to show how graphics work in Python to generate a line graph. Then, we will use several other libraries for other interesting visualizations available from Python.
For this example, we are using made-up data to determine the number of births that have the same name and producing a line plot of the data.
We can use this Python script:
import pandas import matplotlib %matplotlib inline baby_name = ['Alice','Charles','Diane','Edward'] number_births = [96, 155, 66, 272] dataset = list(zip(baby_name,number_births)) df = pandas.DataFrame(data = dataset, columns=['Name', 'Number']) df['Number'].plot()
With the resulting plot as:
This is fictitious data, but it does show a good, clean graphic.