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Python Business Intelligence Cookbook
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Python Business Intelligence Cookbook

by Robert Dempsey
December 2015
Beginner to intermediate
202 pages
4h
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a basic bar chart for a single column over time

You'll find a bar chart in just about every PowerPoint presentation you see. Matplotlib allows the creation of highly customized bar charts. Let's see how to create one.

How to do it…

  1. To create a basic bar chart for a single column over time, begin by importing all the required libraries. To show the matplotlib plots in IPython Notebook, we will use an IPython magic function which starts with %:
    %matplotlib inline
    import pandas as pd
    import numpy as np
    from pymongo import MongoClient
    import matplotlib as mpl
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  2. Next, connect to MongoDB and run a query specifying the five fields to be retrieved from the MongoDB data:
    client = MongoClient('localhost', 27017) db = client.pythonbicookbook ...
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