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Matplotlib 2.x By Example

You're reading from   Matplotlib 2.x By Example Multi-dimensional charts, graphs, and plots in Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788295260
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Allen Yu Allen Yu
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Aldrin Yim Aldrin Yim
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Claire Chung Claire Chung
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Visualizing the trend of data

Once we have imported the two datasets, we can set out on a further visualization journey. Let's begin by plotting the world population trends from 1950 to 2017. To select rows based on the value of a column, we can use the following syntax: df[df.variable_name == "target"] or df[df['variable_name'] == "target"], where df is the dataframe object. Other conditional operators, such as larger than > or smaller than <, are also supported. Multiple conditional statements can be chained together using the "and" operator &, or the "or" operator |.

To aggregate the population across all age groups within a year, we are going to rely on df.groupby().sum(), as shown in the following example:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


# Select the aggregated population data from the world for both genders...
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