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Data Visualization 2

The document discusses different types of basic plots that can be created with Matplotlib, including bar charts, grouped bar charts, stacked bar charts, pie charts, and stacked area charts. It provides examples of how to generate each type of plot, highlighting the appropriate uses of each plot and the code needed to create them. Examples are also given showing how to visualize movie comparison data, restaurant performance data, water usage data, and smartphone sales data using the different plot types.

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Data Visualization 2

The document discusses different types of basic plots that can be created with Matplotlib, including bar charts, grouped bar charts, stacked bar charts, pie charts, and stacked area charts. It provides examples of how to generate each type of plot, highlighting the appropriate uses of each plot and the code needed to create them. Examples are also given showing how to visualize movie comparison data, restaurant performance data, water usage data, and smartphone sales data using the different plot types.

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Lab 2

Matplotlib
Basic Plots

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Bar Chart
• When to use Bar chart
– Vertical bar charts are useful to compare numerical values across categories, such
as age groups,classes.

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Bar Chart
• Create bar chart
– plt.bar(x,height,[width])# vertical bar plot
– plt.barh()# produces horizontal bar plot
– plt.bar(['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'], [20, 25, 40, 10])
–

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Grouped Bar Chart
• When to use Grouped Bar chart
– Grouped bar charts are good for comparing among each element under
multiple categories,

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Grouped Bar Chart
• Create bar chart with subcategory
– labels = ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']
– x = np.arange(len(labels))
– width = 0.4
– plt.bar(x-width/2 , [20, 25, 40, 10], width)
– plt.bar(x+width/2, [30, 15, 30, 20], width)
– ax=plt.gca()# get instance of curr. axes
– plt.xticks(x)
– ax.set_xticklabels(labels)

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Ex 1:Bar Plot for Movie Comparison
Use percentages in an interval of 20 for the y-axis and minor ticks in an
interval of 5.

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Stacked Bar Chart
• When to use stacked bar chart
– Stacked bar charts are used to show how a category is divided into sub-categories
and the proportion of the sub-category, in comparison to the overall category

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Stacked Bar Chart
• To create stacked bar chart
• It uses the same plt.bar function as bar charts.
• plt.bar(x, bars1)
• plt.bar(x, bars2, bottom=bars1)
• plt.bar(x, bars3, bottom=np.add(bars1, bars2))

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Ex 2:Visualize Rest. Performance

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Pie Chart
• When to use pie chart
– The aim of using a pie chart is to compare the contribution of each part to the
whole data.
– A pie chart works best if the sample data only has a few components

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Pie Chart
• To create pie chart
– plt.pie(x, [explode], [labels], [autopct])
• x: Specifies the slice sizes.
• explode: (optional): Specifies the fraction of the radius offset for
each slice. The explode-array must have the same length as
• the x-array.
• Labels:(optional): Specifies the labels for each slice.
• autopct :(optional): Shows percentages inside the slices according to
the specified format string. Example: '%1.1f%%'.

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–
Pie Chart
• Example
– plt.pie([0.4, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1], explode=(0.1, 0, 0, 0), labels=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])

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Ex 3: A Pie Chart for Water Usage

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Stacked Area Chart
• When to use Stacked area chart
– When the primary categorical variable is derived from a continuous feature, such as
periods of time, we have the option of using a stacked area chart rather than stacked
bars.

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Stacked Area Chart
• To create stacked area chart
– plt.stackplot(x, y)
• x:Specifies the x-values of the data series..

• y: Specifies the y-values of the data series. For multiple series,


either as a 2d array, or any number of 1D arrays, call the following
function: plt.stackplot(x, y1, y2, y3, …).

• labels (Optional): Specifies the labels as a list or tuple for each data
series.

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Stacked Area Chart
• Example
– plt.stackplot([1, 2, 3, 4], [2, 4, 5, 8], [1, 5, 4, 2])
–

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Ex 4:Comparing Smartphone Sales

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