Plotting with pandas and seaborn

Now that we have a basic sense of how to load and handle data in a pandas DataFrame object, let's get started with making some simple plots from data. While there are several plotting libraries in Python (including matplotlib, plotly, and seaborn), in this chapter, we will mainly explore the pandas and seaborn libraries, which are extremely useful, popular, and easy to use.

Creating Simple Plots to Visualize a Distribution of Variables

matplotlib is a plotting library available in most Python distributions and is the foundation for several plotting packages, including the built-in plotting functionality of pandas and seaborn. matplotlib enables control of every single aspect of a figure and is known to be verbose. Both seaborn and pandas visualization functions are built on top of matplotlib. The built-in plotting tool of pandas .is a useful exploratory tool to generate figures that are not ready for primetime but useful to understand the...