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Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

By : Srinivasa Rao Poladi, Nikhil Borkar
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Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

By: Srinivasa Rao Poladi, Nikhil Borkar

Overview of this book

Matplotlib provides a large library of customizable plots, along with a comprehensive set of backends. Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook is your hands-on guide to exploring the world of Matplotlib, and covers the most effective plotting packages for Python 3.7. With the help of this cookbook, you'll be able to tackle any problem you might come across while designing attractive, insightful data visualizations. With the help of over 150 recipes, you'll learn how to develop plots related to business intelligence, data science, and engineering disciplines with highly detailed visualizations. Once you've familiarized yourself with the fundamentals, you'll move on to developing professional dashboards with a wide variety of graphs and sophisticated grid layouts in 2D and 3D. You'll annotate and add rich text to the plots, enabling the creation of a business storyline. In addition to this, you'll learn how to save figures and animations in various formats for downstream deployment, followed by extending the functionality offered by various internal and third-party toolkits, such as axisartist, axes_grid, Cartopy, and Seaborn. By the end of this book, you'll be able to create high-quality customized plots and deploy them on the web and on supported GUI applications such as Tkinter, Qt 5, and wxPython by implementing real-world use cases and examples.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Introduction

Seaborn is a powerful visualization tool built on top of Matplotlib. It makes multi-variable exploratory data analysis easier and intuitive, and it adds a few new types of plots, and its background styles and color maps are much more pleasing. It has many built-in statistical functions, making it a preferred tool for statistical data analysis. It also has quite elaborate online documentation, which you can find at https://seaborn.pydata.org/index.html.

We will use two datasets to demonstrate most of the seaborn features. One dataset, Wine Quality, is already familiar to you, and we will introduce a new dataset containing snack sales data from a fictitious snack shop. Instead of reading these files many times in each of the recipes, we will describe both of them in this section, and subsequently we will just use them for plotting the graphs. This is a slight deviation...