16THE INFOVIS, SCIVIS, AND DASHBOARDING LIBRARIES
Visualizing data is an integral part of science. Humans are visual creatures by nature, and viewing data graphically is more efficient and intuitive than reading through lists of strings or numbers. Effective plots help you to clean, prepare, and explore data. You can use them to reveal outliers and spurious samples, identify patterns, and compare datasets. Perhaps most important, they help you to communicate clearly with others and convey your ideas in an easily consumed manner. It’s little wonder that graphics have been called the “pinnacle of communication.”
Data visualization is a very broad ...
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