Visualizing data in GGPLOT
GGPLOT is an open source data visualization library originally built within the programming language R. Over the past few years, it has gained significant popularity. It is an implementation of the grammar of graphics, which is a high-level framework for creating plots in a consistent way. GGPLOT also has a Python implementation called plotnine.
The grammar of graphics consists of seven components that abstract the low-level details and allow you to focus on building aesthetically appealing visualizations. The components include data, aesthetics, geometric objects, facets, statistical transformations, coordinates, and themes. These components are described here:
- Data: This refers to the data we plan to visualize.
- Aesthetics: This refers to the variables we want to plot, that is, a single variable (x variable) or multiple variables (x and y variables).
- Geometric object: This refers to the graph we plan to use. An example could be a histogram...
