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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we focused on temporal data visualizations. Firstly, we learned the theory behind temporal data. Then, we covered the real-world applications of temporal data.

We used the pandas time function to learn about transforming date columns, such as setting time as an index value in line plots and analyzing data at different frequency levels. Time is sequential in nature, so we covered the shift and tshift functions, which can be used to compare current observations with past observations and to find out if there are any correlations.

We also looked at the Bokeh plotting interface. We plotted graphs using increasing levels of complexity and also explained how to add interactive annotations to play around with the time axis.

Finally, we covered the most important plots that will interact with users without running a server using the ipywidgets.interact and push_notebook() functions.

In the next chapter, we will see how to create interactive visualizations...