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The Pandas Workshop

You're reading from   The Pandas Workshop A comprehensive guide to using Python for data analysis with real-world case studies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800208933
Length 744 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Blaine Bateman Blaine Bateman
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William So William So
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Thomas Joseph Thomas Joseph
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Introduction to pandas
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to pandas FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Working with Data Structures 4. Chapter 3: Data I/O 5. Chapter 4: Pandas Data Types 6. Part 2 – Working with Data
7. Chapter 5: Data Selection – DataFrames 8. Chapter 6: Data Selection – Series 9. Chapter 7: Data Exploration and Transformation 10. Chapter 8: Understanding Data Visualization 11. Part 3 – Data Modeling
12. Chapter 9: Data Modeling – Preprocessing 13. Chapter 10: Data Modeling – Modeling Basics 14. Chapter 11: Data Modeling – Regression Modeling 15. Part 4 – Additional Use Cases for pandas
16. Chapter 12: Using Time in pandas 17. Chapter 13: Exploring Time Series 18. Chapter 14: Applying pandas Data Processing for Case Studies 19. Chapter 15: Appendix 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding the basics of pandas visualization

pandas has built-in plot generation capabilities that can be used to visualize both DataFrames and series alike. pandas comes with a built-in plot function that acts as a wrapper on top of the matplotlib plot function. This means that pandas is actually using the matplotlib library but with a simplified syntax. This presents the advantage of being much easier to use (less code and simpler syntax) compared to matplotlib. It provides a wide range of functionality and flexibility to plot data analytics charts with given data.

To start off using pandas in-built visualizations, you will need to know several key parameters for the .plot() function, which can be called from a DataFrame. Some of these are listed as follows:

  • kind: This is the type of plot (bar, barh, pie, scatter, kde, and so on).
  • color: This is the color of the plot.
  • linestyle: This is the style of the line used in the plot (solid, dotted, and dashed).
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