Python GUI Programming with Tkinter - Second Edition

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Visualizing Data Using the Canvas Widget

With months of experimental data logged in the database, it's time to begin the process of visualizing and interpreting it. Rather than exporting data into a spreadsheet to create charts and graphs, your fellow analysts have asked whether the program itself can create graphical data visualizations. Indeed it can! To implement this feature, you're going to need to learn about Tkinter's Canvas widget.

In this chapter, you'll implement data visualizations as you learn the following topics:

• In Drawing and animation with Tkinter's Canvas, you'll learn to use the Canvas widget for drawing and animation
• In Creating simple graphs using Canvas, we'll build a simple line graph using the Tkinter Canvas
• In