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Interactive Data Visualization with Python - Second Edition

By : Abha Belorkar, Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Shubhangi Hora, Anshu Kumar
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Interactive Data Visualization with Python - Second Edition

By: Abha Belorkar, Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Shubhangi Hora, Anshu Kumar

Overview of this book

With so much data being continuously generated, developers, who can present data as impactful and interesting visualizations, are always in demand. Interactive Data Visualization with Python sharpens your data exploration skills, tells you everything there is to know about interactive data visualization in Python. You'll begin by learning how to draw various plots with Matplotlib and Seaborn, the non-interactive data visualization libraries. You'll study different types of visualizations, compare them, and find out how to select a particular type of visualization to suit your requirements. After you get a hang of the various non-interactive visualization libraries, you'll learn the principles of intuitive and persuasive data visualization, and use Bokeh and Plotly to transform your visuals into strong stories. You'll also gain insight into how interactive data and model visualization can optimize the performance of a regression model. By the end of the course, you'll have a new skill set that'll make you the go-to person for transforming data visualizations into engaging and interesting stories.
Table of Contents (9 chapters)

Static versus Interactive Visualization

While static data visualizations are a giant leap forward toward the goal of extracting and explaining the value and information that datasets hold, the addition of interactivity takes these visualizations a step ahead.

Interactive data visualizations have the following qualities:

  • They are easier to explore as they allow you to interact with data by changing colors, parameters, and plots.
  • They can be manipulated easily and instantly. Since you can interact with them, the graphs can be changed in front of you. For example, in the exercises and activities in this chapter, you will create an interactive slider. When the position of this slider is altered and the graph you see changes, you will also be able to create checkboxes that allow you to select the parameters you wish to see.
  • They enable access to real-time data and the insights they provide. This allows for the efficient and quick analysis of trends.
  • They are easier...