5.17 Intro to Data Science: Simulation and Static Visualizations
The last few chapters’ Intro to Data Science sections discussed basic descriptive statistics. Here, we focus on visualizations, which help you “get to know” your data. Visualizations give you a powerful way to understand data that goes beyond simply looking at raw data.
We use two open-source visualization libraries—Seaborn and Matplotlib—to display static bar charts showing the final results of a six-sided-die-rolling simulation. The Seaborn visualization library is built over the Matplotlib visualization library and simplifies many Matplotlib operations. We’ll use aspects of both libraries, because some of the Seaborn operations return objects from the Matplotlib library.
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