Visualizing ordinal and tabular data

In this section, we will talk about tabular and ordinal data, where we don't have an x axis and y axis. We're going to take a look at the following topics:

• Pie charts
• Tables
• How to customize the appearance of plots

Pie charts

Let's take a look at the fractions of gases that exist in our atmosphere. The following content shows the code and output for Nitrogen, which is 78 percent of our atmosphere, Oxygen, which is 21 percent, and Argon, which is 1 percent. Now, naturally, Nitrogen, Oxygen, and Argon are not exactly numerical values. Hence, we cannot really plot these things against each other in the standard way. This is where we can use a pie chart as a best practice to...