Hands-on Matplotlib Learn Plotting and Visualizations with Python 3

Learn the core aspects of NumPy, Matplotlib, and Pandas, and use them to write programs with Python 3. This book focuses heavily on various data visualization techniques and will help you acquire expert-level knowledge of working with Matplotlib, a MATLAB-style plotting library for Python programmin...

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Main Author Pajankar, Ashwin
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Berkeley, CA Apress 2021
Apress L. P
Edition1
Subjects
Computer Science
COMPUTERS
Information visualization
Information visualization-Congresses
Open Source
Professional and Applied Computing
Python
Python (Computer program language)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- About the Technical Reviewer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Introduction to Python 3 -- Introducing the Python 3 Programming Language -- History of the Python Programming Language -- Python Enhancement Proposals -- Philosophy of the Python Programming Language -- Applications of Python -- Installing Python on Various Platforms -- Installing on a Windows Computer -- Installing on Ubuntu/Debian Derivatives -- Using Python Modes -- Interactive Mode -- Script Mode -- Using Python IDEs -- Exploring the Scientific Python Ecosystem -- Introducing Jupyter Notebook -- Setting Up Jupyter Notebook -- Running Code in Jupyter Notebook -- Anaconda -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Getting Started with NumPy -- NumPy and Ndarrays -- Indexing in Ndarrays -- Indexing in Ndarrays of More Than One Dimension -- Ndarray Properties -- NumPy Constants -- Slicing Ndarrays -- Summary -- Chapter 3: NumPy Routines and Getting Started with Matplotlib -- Routines for Creating Ndarrays -- Matplotlib -- Visualization with NumPy and Matplotlib -- Running the Matplotlib Program as a Script -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Revisiting Matplotlib Visualizations -- Single-Line Plots -- Multiline Plots -- Grid, Axes, and Labels -- Colors, Styles, and Markers -- Object-Oriented Plotting -- Subplots -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Styles and Layouts -- Styles -- Layouts -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Lines, Bars, and Scatter Plots -- Lines and Logs -- Error Bars -- Bar Graphs -- Scatter Plot -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Histograms, Contours, and Stream Plots -- Histograms -- Contours -- Visualizing Vectors with Stream Plots -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Image and Audio Visualization -- Visualizing Images -- Image Masking -- Interpolation Methods -- Audio Visualization -- Audio Processing -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Pie and Polar Charts -- Pie Charts
  • Polar Charts -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Working with Colors -- pcolor() -- pcolormesh() -- colorbar() -- Summary -- Chapter 11: 3D Visualizations in Matplotlib -- Getting Ready -- Plotting 3D Lines -- 3D Scatter Plots -- 3D Contours -- Wireframes, Surfaces, and Sample Data -- Bar Graphs -- Quiver and Stem Plots -- 3D Volumes -- Summary -- Chapter 12: Animations with Matplotlib -- Animation Basics -- Celluloid Library -- Summary -- Chapter 13: More Visualizations with Matplotlib -- Visualizing a Function as an Image and a Contour -- 3D Vignettes -- Decorated Scatter Plots -- Time Plots and Signals -- Filled Plots -- Step Plots -- Hexbins -- XKCD Style -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Introduction to Pandas -- Introduction to Pandas -- Series in Pandas -- Basic Operations on Series -- Dataframe in Pandas -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Data Acquisition -- Plain-Text File Handling -- Handling CSV Files with Python -- Python and Excel -- Writing and Reading Files with NumPy -- Reading the Data from a CSV File with NumPy -- Matplotlib CBook -- Reading Data from a CSV -- Reading Data from an Excel File -- Reading Data from JSON -- Reading Data from a Pickle File -- Reading Data from the Web -- Interacting with the Web API -- Reading Data from a Relational Database Table -- Reading Data from the Clipboard -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Visualizing Data with Pandas and Matplotlib -- Simple Plots -- Bar Graphs -- Histograms -- Box Plots -- Area Plots -- Scatter Plots -- Hexagonal Bin Plots -- Pie Charts -- Summary -- Chapter 17: Introduction to Data Visualization with Seaborn -- What Is Seaborn? -- Plotting Statistical Relationships -- Plotting Lines -- Visualizing the Distribution of Data -- Summary -- Chapter 18: Visualizing Real-Life Data with Matplotlib and Seaborn -- COVID-19 Pandemic Data -- Fetching the Pandemic Data Programmatically
  • Preparing the Data for Visualization -- Creating Visualizations with Matplotlib and Seaborn -- Creating Visualizations of Animal Disease Data -- Summary -- Index