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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 book, we learned about the benefits of creating interactive data visualizations and how to build on static data visualizations to make them interactive. Simply incorporating features such as sliders, hover tools, and checkboxes can have an immensely positive impact on the way data is understood and how insights are gained.

We looked at different Python libraries and what visualizations and situations they are best suited for. For example, bokeh is preferred when creating visualizations for web-based applications.

Data and what you wish to show can be classified into four broad categories – comparisons, relationships, geo-spatial, and temporal. Each category has a wide array of graphs that suit that type of data best, but interactive features can help when data or what you want to show fall under more than one category – that's why interactive data visualizations are so great!

We also created context-based visualizations for different types...