Instantly Beautify Matplotlib Plots by Viewing all Available Styles
In this post, you'll learn about the different available matplotlib styles that can instantly change the appearance of the plot. Let's begin by making a simple line plot using the default style. This simple style is often the first (and sometimes only) style that many people encounter with matplotlib not realizing how easy it is to choose others.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np x = np.arange(-2, 8, .1) y = .1 * x ** 3 - x ** 2 + 3 * x + 2 fig, ax...Automate Publishing of Jupyter Notebooks as Medium Blog Posts with jupyter_to_medium
I am very excited to announce the official release of jupyter_to_medium, a Python package that extends Jupyter Notebooks, allowing you to automate the process of publishing them as Medium blog posts.
Motivation
I've published dozens of blog posts on Medium myself with all of them beginning as Jupyter Notebooks. Manually converting them to Medium posts was a fairly lengthy, painstaking process. One particularly painful process was inserting tables, which Medium does not support, into...
Official Release of bar_chart_race - A Python Package for Creating Animated Bar Chart Races
I'm excited to announce the official release of bar_chart_race, a python package for creating bar chart races. In this post, I'll cover many of the major available options. Navigate to the official documentation for a full breakdown of all of the options.
Motivation
Bar chart races have become very popular over the last year and no python package existed to create them. I also built some for my coronavirus dashboard.
Installation
Install with:
pip install...Create a Bar Chart Race Animation in Python with Matplotlib
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to create a bar chart race animation such as the one below using the matplotlib data visualization library in python.
bar_chart_race python package¶
Along with this tutorial is the release of the python package bar_chart_race that automates the process of making these animations. This post explains the procedure from scratch.
What is a bar chart race?¶
A bar chart race is an animated sequence of bars that show data values at...
Create a Tesla Cybertruck that Drives with Matplotlib
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create the new Tesla Cybertruck using matplotlib. I was inspired by the image below which was originally created by Lynn Fisher (without matplotlib).
Before going into detail, let’s jump to the results. Here is the completed recreation of the Tesla Cybertruck that drives off the screen.
Tutorial
A tutorial now follows containing all the steps that creates a Tesla Cybertruck that drives. It covers the following topics:
- Figure...
Minimally Sufficient Pandas Cheat Sheet
This article summarizes the very detailed guide presented in Minimally Sufficient Pandas.
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What is Minimally Sufficient Pandas?
- It is a small subset of the library that is sufficient to accomplish nearly everything that it has to offer.
- It allows you to focus on doing data analysis and not the syntax
How will Minimally Sufficient Pandas benefit...
Minimally Sufficient Pandas
In this article, I will offer an opinionated perspective on how to best use the Pandas library for data analysis. My objective is to argue that only a small subset of the library is sufficient to complete nearly all of the data analysis tasks that one will encounter. This minimally sufficient subset of the library will benefit both beginners and professionals using Pandas. Not everyone will agree with the suggestions I lay forward, but they are how...
Recreate Tesla Cybertruck in Matplotlib - Dunder Data Challenge #6 Solution
In this post, we recreate the new Tesla Cybertruck using matplotlib and animate it so that it drives. Our goal is to recreate this image below.
Click the video at the top of this post to view the animation and final solution.
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Tutorial
A tutorial will now follow that describes the recreation. It will discuss the...
Dunder Data Challenge #6 — Recreate the Tesla Cybertruck with Matplotlib
In this challenge, you will recreate the Tesla Cybertruck unveiled last week using matplotlib. All challenges are available to be completed in your browser in a Jupyter Notebook now thanks to Binder (mybinder.org).
Challenge
Use matplotlib to recreate the Tesla Cybertruck image above.
Extra Challenge
Add animation so that it drives off the screen.
I’m still working on this challenge myself. My current recreation is below:
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Dunder Data Challenge #5 Solution
This post presents a solution to Dunder Data Challenge #5 — Keeping Values Within the Interquartile Range.
All challenges may be worked in a Jupyter Notebook right now thanks to Binder (mybinder.org).
Solution
We begin by finding the first and third quartiles of each stock using the quantile method. This is an aggregation which returns a single value for each column by default. Set the first parameter, q to a float between 0 and 1 to...
