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Interactive Data Visualization with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2020
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ISBN-13 9781800200944
Length 362 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Shubhangi Hora Shubhangi Hora
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Abha Belorkar Abha Belorkar
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Anshu Kumar Anshu Kumar
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Sharath Chandra Guntuku Sharath Chandra Guntuku
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Preface 1. Introduction to Visualization with Python – Basic and Customized Plotting 2. Static Visualization – Global Patterns and Summary Statistics FREE CHAPTER 3. From Static to Interactive Visualization 4. Interactive Visualization of Data across Strata 5. Interactive Visualization of Data across Time 6. Interactive Visualization of Geographical Data 7. Avoiding Common Pitfalls to Create Interactive Visualizations Appendix

Summary

In this chapter, we learned how choosing the most appropriate visualization(s) depends on four key elements:

  • The nature of the features in a dataset: categorical/discrete, numerical/continuous numerical
  • The size of the dataset: small/medium/large
  • The density of the data points in the chosen feature space: whether too many or too few data points are set to certain feature values
  • The context of the visualization: the source of the dataset and frequently used visualizations for the given application

For the purpose of explaining the concepts clearly and defining certain general guidelines, we classified visualizations into two categories:

  • Plots representing the global patterns of the chosen features (for example, histograms, scatter plots, hexbin plots, contour plots, line plots,and heatmaps)
  • Plots representing the summary statistics of the specific features (box plots and violin plots)

We are not implying that a single best visualization...

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