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Python Automation Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Automation Cookbook Explore the world of automation using Python recipes that will enhance your skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133806
Length 398 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jaime Buelta Jaime Buelta
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Let Us Begin Our Automation Journey FREE CHAPTER 2. Automating Tasks Made Easy 3. Building Your First Web Scraping Application 4. Searching and Reading Local Files 5. Generating Fantastic Reports 6. Fun with Spreadsheets 7. Developing Stunning Graphs 8. Dealing with Communication Channels 9. Why Not Automate Your Marketing Campaign? 10. Debugging Techniques 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Drawing a scatter plot

A scatter plot is one where the information is only displayed as dots with X and Y values. They are very useful when presenting samples and to see whether there's any relationship between two variables. In this recipe, we'll display a graph plotting time spent on a website against money spent, to see whether we can see a pattern.

Getting ready

We need to install matplotlib in our virtual environment:

$ echo "matplotlib==2.2.2" >> requirements.txt
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

If you are using macOS, it's possible that you get an error like this—RuntimeError: Python is not installed as a framework. See the matplolib documentation on how to fix it: https://matplotlib...

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