How to Visualize the Raw Data
Explore how to visualize raw data by creating histograms and bar graphs using Python in a Jupyter notebook. Understand when to use each chart type effectively and how to read them to identify meaningful insights from data like athlete birth month trends.
Visualization of data
Now that we have the birth months of nearly 1,100 current NHL players, let’s see what it looks like in a histogram.
What have we got here? It looks to us like January births do, indeed, account for a disproportionately high number of players but, then, so does December. And, overall, we don’t see the pattern that Gladwell’s idea predicted. Does that mean he was wrong?
Perhaps not. Let’s make sure we’re reading this histogram correctly. Remember: we’re just starting in this field and ...