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Mastering Matplotlib
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Mastering Matplotlib

by Duncan M. McGreggor
June 2015
Beginner to intermediate
292 pages
6h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Visualizing large data

The majority of this notebook has been dedicated to processing large datasets and plotting histograms. This was done intentionally because by using such an approach, the number of artists on the matplotlib canvas is limited to something in the order of hundreds, which is better than attempting to plot millions of artists. In this section, we will address the problem of displaying the actual elements of large datasets. We will then return to the last HDF5 table in the remainder of the chapter.

As a refresher on the volume that we're looking at, the number of data points in our dataset can be calculated in the following way:

In [45]: data_len = len(tab)
         data_len
Out[45]: 288000000

Again, our dataset has nearly one third of ...

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