June 2016
Beginner to intermediate
304 pages
6h 24m
English
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Chapter 12. Visualizing Data
In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:
- Plotting 3D scatter plots
- Plotting bubble plots
- Animating bubble plots
- Drawing pie charts
- Plotting date-formatted time series data
- Plotting histograms
- Visualizing heat maps
- Animating dynamic signals
Introduction
Data visualization is an important pillar of machine learning. It helps us formulate the right strategies to understand data. Visual representation of data assists us in choosing the right algorithms. One of the main goals of data visualization is to communicate clearly using graphs and charts. These graphs help us communicate information clearly and efficiently.
We encounter numerical data all the time in the real world. We want to encode this numerical data using ...