Packt+ | Advance your knowledge in tech

All Products

Best Sellers

New Releases

Books

Videos

Audiobooks

Free Learning

Python Data Visualization Cookbook

You're reading from Python Data Visualization Cookbook

Product type Book

Published in Nov 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782163367

Pages 280 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Concepts

Data Visualization

Author (1):

Igor Milovanovic

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Python Data Visualization Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Preparing Your Working Environment

2. Knowing Your Data

3. Drawing Your First Plots and Customizing Them

4. More Plots and Customizations

5. Making 3D Visualizations

6. Plotting Charts with Images and Maps

7. Using Right Plots to Understand Data

8. More on matplotlib Gems

Index

Chapter 1. Preparing Your Working Environment

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Installing matplotlib, NumPy, and SciPy
Installing virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper
Installing matplotlib on Mac OS X
Installing matplotlib on Windows
Installing Python Imaging Library (PIL) for image processing
Installing a requests module
Customizing matplotlib's parameters in code
Customizing matplotlib's parameters per project

You have been reading a chapter from

Python Data Visualization Cookbook

Published in: Nov 2013 Publisher: Packt ISBN-13: 9781782163367

© 2013 Packt Publishing Limited All Rights Reserved

Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!

A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.

Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days

Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of

Start free trial

Renews at $15.99/month. Cancel anytime}

Authors (1)

Igor Milovanovic

Igor Milovanović is an experienced developer, with strong background in Linux system knowledge and software engineering education. He is skilled in building scalable data-driven distributed software rich systems. An evangelist for high-quality systems design, he has a strong interest in software architecture and development methodologies. Igor is always committed to advocating methodologies that promote high-quality software, such as test-driven development, one-step builds, and continuous integration. He also possesses solid knowledge of product development. With field experience and official training, he is capable of transferring knowledge and communication flow from business to developers and vice versa. Igor is most grateful to his girlfriend for letting him spend hours on work instead with her and being an avid listener to his endless book monologues. He thanks his brother for being the strongest supporter. He is also thankful to his parents for letting him develop in various ways to become a person he is today.

See other products by Igor Milovanovic

Personalised recommendations for you

Based on your interests and search pattern

Ever wonder why speech recognition systems don't understand the Scottish accent, or what would happen if an astronaut only ate mac 'n' cheese, or other spurious reflections you'd have at a bar? We did, then collated those deliberations into absurd research articles with fake figures and methodologies inspired by even more fictionally absurd studies.

Aug 2023 7 hours 40 minutes

Generative AI with LangChain

Generative AI with LangChain

This book is a comprehensive introduction to LLMs and LangChain, demystifying the basic mechanics of LangChain, its functionalities, and the myriad of applications it can be integrated into.

Dec 2023 12 hours 0 minutes

Generative AI with LangChain

Generative AI with LangChain

This book is a comprehensive introduction to LLMs and LangChain, demystifying the basic mechanics of LangChain, its functionalities, and the myriad of applications it can be integrated into.

Dec 2023 12 hours 0 minutes

Generative AI with LangChain

Generative AI with LangChain

This book is a comprehensive introduction to LLMs and LangChain, demystifying the basic mechanics of LangChain, its functionalities, and the myriad of applications it can be integrated into.

Dec 2023 12 hours 0 minutes

Generative AI with LangChain

Generative AI with LangChain

This book is a comprehensive introduction to LLMs and LangChain, demystifying the basic mechanics of LangChain, its functionalities, and the myriad of applications it can be integrated into.

Dec 2023 12 hours 0 minutes

Mastering Tableau 2023

Mastering Tableau 2023

This book is a comprehensive resource to mastering your Tableau skills and becoming a BI expert. As you progress, you will learn how to build advanced dashboards and improve your storytelling to derive key business insight, as well as make you well-versed with advanced functionalities of Tableau in the business intelligence domain.

Aug 2023 22 hours 48 minutes

Building AI Applications with ChatGPT APIs

Building AI Applications with ChatGPT APIs

This guide covers all ChatGPT API features for effortless creation of robust AI powered apps. With its help, you’ll be able to leverage ChatGPT’s cutting-edge NLP models to take your app development skills to the next level. You’ll also work on ten exciting projects that will give you the practical know-how that you can apply to your existing applications.

Sep 2023 8 hours 36 minutes

Building AI Applications with ChatGPT APIs

Building AI Applications with ChatGPT APIs

This guide covers all ChatGPT API features for effortless creation of robust AI powered apps. With its help, you’ll be able to leverage ChatGPT’s cutting-edge NLP models to take your app development skills to the next level. You’ll also work on ten exciting projects that will give you the practical know-how that you can apply to your existing applications.

Sep 2023 8 hours 36 minutes

Data Engineering with AWS

Data Engineering with AWS

Embark on a journey to master data engineering pipelines on AWS! Our book offers a hands-on experience of AWS services for ingesting, transforming, and consuming data. Whether you're an absolute beginner or someone with basic data engineering experience, this guide is an indispensable resource.

Oct 2023 21 hours 12 minutes

Modern Data Architecture on AWS

Modern Data Architecture on AWS

Every organization wants an agile, performant, and cost-effective data platform that meets all their current and future business needs. Purpose-built AWS analytics services and their features play a big part in building such a modern data platform. This book brings to you all the design and architectural patterns that’ll help you achieve this goal.

Aug 2023 14 hours 0 minutes

Practical Guide to Applied Conformal Prediction in Python

Practical Guide to Applied Conformal Prediction in Python

Discover the power of Conformal Prediction with the "Practical Guide to Applied Conformal Prediction in Python." Master the latest techniques to quantify uncertainty in machine learning and computer vision models, and seamlessly apply them to your industry applications.

Dec 2023 8 hours 0 minutes

TinyML Cookbook

TinyML Cookbook

With over 70 project-based recipes, the TinyML Cookbook is a practical guide that will help you to get the most out of your microcontrollers. It provides a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical foundations while giving you hands-on experience training ML models for deployment on Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense, Raspberry Pi Pico, and SparkFun RedBoard Artemis Nano microcontrollers.

Nov 2023 22 hours 8 minutes