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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)

Cheat Sheet for the Visualization Process

We have looked at various static and interactive visualization plots. But when we look at a dataset, how do we arrive at a conclusion regarding which visualization suits our needs? Let's take a look at the following flow charts to understand how to make a decision quickly regarding which plot we should choose and what interactive features to add to the plot to represent the data in a meaningful way. Let's take a look at the following diagram:

Figure 7.21a: Guideline of how to create a great visualization
Figure 7.21b: Guideline of how to create a great visualization

This flow chart acts as a cheat sheet so that you can arrive at a conclusion regarding how to create a quick visualization based on a dataset.