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Python for Excel Users
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Python for Excel Users

by Tracy Stephens
September 2025
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
8h 54m
English
No Starch Press
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9CREATING CHARTS AND VISUALS

A chapter opening image, taken from the front cover. Shows a robot exploding out of a spreadsheet, with empty cells flying out from around the area of impact.

This chapter covers charting in Python. We’ll examine the situations where creating charts with Python code is superior to creating them in Excel. Then we’ll explore how to work with Plotly, a powerful and relatively simple charting library. We’ll start with basic line and bar charts, then move on to more complex, multidimensional charts with custom styling, reusable themes, and interactive elements.

No matter the goal of your data analysis—spotting trends, seeing relationships, making decisions, or communicating ideas—visualizations are one of the most powerful tools you have. Creating these visualizations more ...

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