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Introduction To Data Visualization With Matplotlib: Ariel Rokem

This document introduces data visualization with Matplotlib. It discusses importing Matplotlib, creating figures and axes, adding data to plots, customizing visual properties like colors and markers, adding labels and titles, and using subplots to show multiple plots together. Small multiples allow viewing multiple graphs side by side to compare patterns in the data.

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Introduction To Data Visualization With Matplotlib: Ariel Rokem

This document introduces data visualization with Matplotlib. It discusses importing Matplotlib, creating figures and axes, adding data to plots, customizing visual properties like colors and markers, adding labels and titles, and using subplots to show multiple plots together. Small multiples allow viewing multiple graphs side by side to compare patterns in the data.

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Introduction to Data

Visualization with
Matplotlib
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO D ATA V I S U A L I Z AT I O N W I T H M AT P LOT L I B

Ariel Rokem
Data Scientist
Data visualization

Image credit: Gytis Dudas and Andrew Rambaut

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Introducing the pyplot interface
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Adding data to axes
seattle_weather["MONTH"] seattle_weather["MLY-TAVG-NORMAL"]

DATE 1 42.1
1 Jan 2 43.4
2 Feb 3 46.6
3 Mar 4 50.5
4 Apr 5 56.0
5 May 6 61.0
6 Jun 7 65.9
7 Jul 8 66.5
8 Aug 9 61.6
9 Sep 10 53.3
10 Oct 11 46.2
11 Nov 12 41.1
12 Dec Name: MLY-TAVG-NORMAL, dtype: float64
Name: MONTH, dtype: object

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Adding data to axes
ax.plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"], seattle_weather["MLY-TAVG-NORMAL"]
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Adding more data
ax.plot(austin_weather["MONTH"], austin_weather["MLY-TAVG-NORMAL"])
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Putting it all together
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"], seattle_weather["MLY-TAVG-NORMAL"]
ax.plot(austin_weather["MONTH"], austin_weather["MLY-TAVG-NORMAL"])
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Practice making a
gure!
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO D ATA V I S U A L I Z AT I O N W I T H M AT P LOT L I B
Customizing your
plots
I N T R O D U C T I O N TO D ATA V I S U A L I Z AT I O N W I T H M AT P LOT L I B

Ariel Rokem
Data Scientist
Customizing data appearance
ax.plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"],
seattle_weather["MLY-PRCP-NORMAL"])
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Adding markers
ax.plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"],
seattle_weather["MLY-PRCP-NORMAL"],
marker="o")
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Choosing markers
ax.plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"],
seattle_weather["MLY-PRCP-NORMAL"],
marker="v")
plt.show()

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Setting the linestyle
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"],
seattle_weather["MLY-TAVG-NORMAL"],
marker="v", linestyle="--")
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Eliminating lines with linestyle
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"],
seattle_weather["MLY-TAVG-NORMAL"],
marker="v", linestyle="None")
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Choosing color
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"],
seattle_weather["MLY-TAVG-NORMAL"],
marker="v", linestyle="--", color="r")
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Customizing the axes labels
ax.set_xlabel("Time (months)")
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Setting the y axis label
ax.set_xlabel("Time (months)")
ax.set_ylabel("Average temperature (Fahrenheit degrees)")
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Adding a title
ax.set_title("Weather in Seattle")
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Practice customizing
your plots!
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Ariel Rokem
Data Scientist
Adding data
ax.plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"],
seattle_weather["MLY-PRCP-NORMAL"],
color='b')
ax.set_xlabel("Time (months)")
ax.set_ylabel("Precipitation (inches)")
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Adding more data
ax.plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"], seattle_weather["MLY-PRCP-25PCTL"],
linestyle='--', color='b')
ax.plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"], seattle_weather["MLY-PRCP-75PCTL"],
linestyle='--', color=color)
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


And more data
ax.plot(austin_weather["MONTH"], austin_weather["MLY-PRCP-NORMAL"],
color='r')
ax.plot(austin_weather["MONTH"], austin_weather["MLY-PRCP-25PCTL"],
linestyle='--', color='r')
ax.plot(austin_weather["MONTH"], austin_weather["MLY-PRCP-75PCTL"],
linestyle='--', color='r')
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Too much data!

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Small multiples with plt.subplots
fig, ax = plt.subplots()

fig, ax = plt.subplots(3, 2)

plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Adding data to subplots
ax.shape

(3, 2)

ax[0, 0].plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"],
seattle_weather["MLY-PRCP-NORMAL"],
color='b')
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Subplots with data
fig, ax = plt.subplots(2, 1)
ax[0].plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"], seattle_weather["MLY-PRCP-NORMAL"],
color='b')
ax[0].plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"], seattle_weather["MLY-PRCP-25PCTL"],
linestyle='--', color='b')
ax[0].plot(seattle_weather["MONTH"], seattle_weather["MLY-PRCP-75PCTL"],
linestyle='--', color='b')
ax[1].plot(austin_weather["MONTH"], austin_weather["MLY-PRCP-NORMAL"],
color='r')
ax[1].plot(austin_weather["MONTH"], austin_weather["MLY-PRCP-25PCTL"],
linestyle='--', color='r')
ax[1].plot(austin_weather["MONTH"], austin_weather["MLY-PRCP-75PCTL"],
linestyle='--', color='r')
ax[0].set_ylabel("Precipitation (inches)")
ax[1].set_ylabel("Precipitation (inches)")
ax[1].set_xlabel("Time (months)")
plt.show()

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Subplots with data

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Sharing the y-axis range
fig, ax = plt.subplots(2, 1, sharey=True)

INTRODUCTION TO DATA VISUALIZATION WITH MATPLOTLIB


Practice making
subplots!
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