Chapter 6. Visualization

Last but not least, we are going to illustrate how to create visualizations with Python to support your data science project. Visualization plays an important role in helping you communicate the results and insights derived from data and the learning process.

In this chapter, you will learn how to:

  • Use the basic pyplot functions from the matplotlib package
  • Leverage pandas DataFrame for Explorative Data Analysis (EDA)
  • Visualize the machine learning and optimization processes we discussed in Chapter 3, The Data Science Pipeline, and Chapter 4, Machine Learning
  • Understand and visually communicate variables' importance and their relationship with the target outcome

Introducing the basics of matplotlib

Visualization is a fundamental ...

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