Python Data Visualization Cookbook (Second Edition): Visualize data using Python's most popular libraries

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Learn how to set up an optimal Python environment for data visualization

Understand how to import, clean and organize your data

Determine different approaches to data visualization and how to choose the most appropriate for your needs

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Python Data Visualization Cookbook will progress the reader from the point of installing and setting up a Python environment for data manipulation and visualization all the way to 3D animations using Python libraries. Readers will benefit from over 60 precise and reproducible recipes that will guide the reader towards a better understanding of data concepts and the building blocks for subsequent and sometimes more advanced concepts. Python Data Visualization Cookbook starts by showing how to set up matplotlib and the related libraries that are required for most parts of the book, before moving on to discuss some of the lesser-used diagrams and charts such as Gantt Charts or Sankey diagrams. Initially it uses simple plots and charts to more advanced ones, to make it easy to understand for readers. As the readers will go through the book, they will get to know about the 3D diagrams and animations. Maps are irreplaceable for displaying geo-spatial data, so this book will also show how to build them. In the last chapter, it includes explanation on how to incorporate matplotlib into different environments, such as a writing system, LaTeX, or how to create Gantt charts using Python.

What you will learn

Introduce yourself to the essential tooling to set up your working environment.

Explore your data using the capabilities of standard Python Data Library and Panda Library

Draw your first chart and customize it

Use the most popular data visualization Python libraries

Make 3D visualizations mainly using mplot3d

Create charts with images and maps

Understand the most appropriate charts to describe your data

Know the matplotlib hidden gems

Use plot.ly to share your visualization online

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Reader May 29, 2016

Very clear recipes and explanations, everything I hoped it would be.

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Oleg Okun Jan 16, 2016

The title of this book includes the word "cookbook" and as a cookbook the book contains a plenty of practical recipes of data visualization in Python. It presents not a mere description of Python packages and commands related to visualization, but embeds these tools into real-world scenarios. Not only visualization itself but also data manipulation enabling insightful visualization are discussed in detail. Needless to say, the discussion of every topic is accompanied by ready-to-use Python code.

Amazon Customer Dec 07, 2015

The book helped me to understand how to visualize data with python anf find a good solution to implement own little datamart at home for home automation project.

Amazon Customer Dec 31, 2015

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for my review. I think this is a great book. The examples for the different plotting methods and customizations all worked. The first chapter describe set-up and code samples for using data in different formats. I remember when I was first given the task to add a chart to a report to represent data and how it took me a minute to ensure I was doing things correctly. This book would helped me a great deal at that time. Many questions I had previously about plotting and correctly coding solutions for charts I haven't been asked to make yet, were answered. I have been creating reports and charts for a University Research team and this book has been a godsend. I think this book would have helped me when I was working using java for reports and charts. I just this is a great book.

Jonathan Jul 14, 2017

Please don"t get me wrong, the book is quite useful and it"s quite frankly more handy for me to look things up in a book than on the internet.But in essence, all the information is freely available on the internet and therefore the book is very, very expensive for a black-and-white handbook!

Python Data Visualization Cookbook (Second Edition): Visualize data using Python's most popular libraries

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