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Jalem Raj Rohit
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Jalem Raj Rohit is an IIT Jodhpur graduate with a keen interest in recommender systems, machine learning, and serverless and distributed systems. Raj currently works as a senior consultantdata scienceand NLP at Episource, before which he worked at Zomato and Kayako. He contributes to open source projects in Python, Go, and Julia. He also speaks at tech conferences about serverless engineering and machine learning.
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Aesthetic customizations


As we have already gone through how to plot the most important visualizations and their customizations in the Gadfly library, we will also see how to customize them even further. The Gadfly library allows the analyst to almost completely tweak and customize their visualizations so that they can be better fitted to the dataset properties are very flexible for our purposes.

Getting ready

We will use the Gadfly library, which we used in the preceding recipes. So, to install the library, you can follow the installation steps mentioned in the previous recipes.

How to do it...

  1. The limits of the axes can be customized or transformed to the logarithmic scale with the Scale.x_log parameter in the plot() function. This would help in visualizing exponentially increasing data or data in different scales. We will scale the x axis in this example. This can be done as follows:

    plot(x = rand(10), y = rand(10), Scale.x_log)
    

  2. The minimum and maximum values in the plot or in a particular...

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Jalem Raj Rohit

Jalem Raj Rohit is an IIT Jodhpur graduate with a keen interest in recommender systems, machine learning, and serverless and distributed systems. Raj currently works as a senior consultantdata scienceand NLP at Episource, before which he worked at Zomato and Kayako. He contributes to open source projects in Python, Go, and Julia. He also speaks at tech conferences about serverless engineering and machine learning.
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