Data is a very powerful weapon. If used properly, it can lead to many victories. In the business world, victory means a happy customer while company remain competitive in the market. Sometimes data presented is in numerical form or in tabular form, which makes it very difficult to find a pattern or to visually analyze it.
On the other hand, if the same data is presented to you in graphical form, such as in the form of different types of charts or an interactive dashboard, most of the time it becomes easy to visualize what to look for, and it may lead to meaningful discoveries to help in a better understanding and analysis of the data.
In this chapter, we will go through the following data visualization libraries, which will help to present data in the form of different types of visual elements, such as charts:
- Matplotlib
- D3.js
Let's start with the first...