Chapter 4. Making Sense of Data through Advanced Visualization
Visualization is a very integral part of data science. It helps in communicating a pattern or a relationship that cannot be seen by looking at raw data. It's easier for a person to remember a picture and recollect it as compared to lines of text. This holds true for data too.
In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:
- Controlling the properties of a plot
- Combining multiple plots
- Styling your plots
- Creating various advanced visualizations
Controlling the line properties of a chart
There are many properties of a line that can be set, such as the color, dashes, and several others. There are essentially three ways of doing this. Let's take a simple line chart as an example:
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