Data Visualization Techniques - Scatter, Line, and Histogram
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Visualization Techniques
1. Scatter Plots
Scatter plots are deceptively simple and commonly used, but simple doesn’t mean that they aren’t useful!
In a scatter plot, data points are represented individually with a dot, circle, or some other shape. These plots are great for showing the relationship between two variables as we can directly see the raw distribution of the data.
To create a scatter plot in Matplotlib we can simply use the scatter
method. Let’s see how by creating a scatter plot with randomly generated data points of many colors and sizes.
First, let’s generate some random data points, x and y, and set random values for colors and sizes because we want a pretty plot:
A complete “runnable” example is at the end.
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