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Data Science
Lecture # 18 Matplotlib Library
• By the end of this lecture, you should be able to:
• Explain the role of Matplotlib in Python
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What is Matplotlib?
• Widely used plotting
library for Python • It is easy to produce quick plots of data using this library
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Why Matplotlib?
• We can produce a bar chart, a line chart, a scatter plot, a
box plot or histogram in just a few lines of code • We can quickly check the relationship between features, plot trend lines, or just get a better feel for the distribution of data 4
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Why Matplotlib?
• Used to create complex visualizations
• We can customize our plots for presenting results 5
World Development Indicators • Now we’ll work on World Development Indicators Dataset which is an open dataset on Kaggle • Slightly modified version from the dataset that’s actually available from the World Bank
• By the end of this lecture, you should be able to:
• Use the World Development Indicators Dataset for data science • Discuss “05a_Matplotlib_Notebook.ipynb” 7