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Introduction to Data Visualization with Matplotlib

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Learn how to create, customize, and share data visualizations using Matplotlib.

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Visualizing data in plots and figures exposes the underlying patterns in the data and provides insights. Good visualizations also help you communicate your data to others, and are useful to data analysts and other consumers of the data. In this course, you will learn how to use Matplotlib, a powerful Python data visualization library. Matplotlib provides the building blocks to create rich visualizations of many different kinds of datasets. You will learn how to create visualizations for different kinds of data and how to customize, automate, and share these visualizations.
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  1. 1

    Introduction to Matplotlib

    Free

    This chapter introduces the Matplotlib visualization library and demonstrates how to use it with data.

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    Introduction to data visualization with Matplotlib
    50 xp
    Using the matplotlib.pyplot interface
    100 xp
    Adding data to an Axes object
    100 xp
    Customizing your plots
    50 xp
    Customizing data appearance
    100 xp
    Customizing axis labels and adding titles
    100 xp
    Small multiples
    50 xp
    Creating a grid of subplots
    50 xp
    Creating small multiples with plt.subplots
    100 xp
    Small multiples with shared y axis
    100 xp
  2. 4

    Sharing visualizations with others

    This chapter shows you how to share your visualizations with others: how to save your figures as files, how to adjust their look and feel, and how to automate their creation based on input data.

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Amy Peterson
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  • Alessandro I.
    12 days

    Great course to start being familiar with visuals in Python.

  • Ahmed Y.
    28 days

    Excellent content, and logical sequence that help fully understand the concept

  • José C.
    about 2 months

    the course is amazing

  • JUDE A.
    3 months

    Great explanations and tools for plotting. I like not only that the course tutor provided cheat sheet but also further links to further research into various plots

  • Kostyantyn T.
    3 months

    Clear and concise course about quite complicated library.

"Great course to start being familiar with visuals in Python."

Alessandro I.

"Excellent content, and logical sequence that help fully understand the concept"

Ahmed Y.

"the course is amazing"

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