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Hands-On Data Visualization with Bokeh

By : Kevin Jolly
Book Image

Hands-On Data Visualization with Bokeh

By: Kevin Jolly

Overview of this book

Adding a layer of interactivity to your plots and converting these plots into applications hold immense value in the field of data science. The standard approach to adding interactivity would be to use paid software such as Tableau, but the Bokeh package in Python offers users a way to create both interactive and visually aesthetic plots for free. This book gets you up to speed with Bokeh - a popular Python library for interactive data visualization. The book starts out by helping you understand how Bokeh works internally and how you can set up and install the package in your local machine. You then use a real world data set which uses stock data from Kaggle to create interactive and visually stunning plots. You will also learn how to leverage Bokeh using some advanced concepts such as plotting with spatial and geo data. Finally you will use all the concepts that you have learned in the previous chapters to create your very own Bokeh application from scratch. By the end of the book you will be able to create your very own Bokeh application. You will have gone through a step by step process that starts with understanding what Bokeh actually is and ends with building your very own Bokeh application filled with interactive and visually aesthetic plots.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Creating annotations to convey supplemental information

When creating plots it's fundamental to get across the story that the information in the plot is trying to convey. This can be done by adding titles, legends, and color maps to your plot.

Adding titles to plots

Titles are used to tell the reader about the overall story of the plot.

For the purposes of this chapter, we will use the S&P 500 stock data found on Kaggle. (https://www.kaggle.com/camnugent/sandp500/data).

We will also filter the data to just information about Apple stocks, as illustrated in the following code:

#Import the required packages

import pandas as pd

#Read in the data

df = pd.read_csv('all_stocks_5yr.csv')

#Convert the date column into...