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The Data Visualization Workshop

You're reading from The Data Visualization Workshop A self-paced, practical approach to transforming your complex data into compelling, captivating graphics

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568846

Length 536 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Python

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Jupyter

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Data Visualization

Authors (7):

Mario Döbler

Tim Großmann

Rohan Chikorde

Joshua Görner

Anshu Kumar

Piotr Malak

Ankit Verma

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Table of Contents (9) Chapters

Preface

1. The Importance of Data Visualization and Data Exploration

2. All You Need to Know about Plots FREE CHAPTER

3. A Deep Dive into Matplotlib

4. Simplifying Visualizations Using Seaborn

5. Plotting Geospatial Data

6. Making Things Interactive with Bokeh

7. Combining What We Have Learned

Appendix

5. Plotting Geospatial Data

Overview

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to utilize geoplotlib to create stunning geographical visualizations and identify the different types of geospatial charts. You will be able to demonstrate datasets containing geospatial data for plotting and create complex visualizations using tile providers and custom layers.

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Authors (7)

Mario Döbler

Mario Döbler

Mario Döbler is a Ph.D. student with a focus on deep learning at the University of Stuttgart. He previously interned at the Bosch Center for artificial intelligence in the Silicon Valley in the field of deep learning. He used state-of-the-art algorithms to develop cutting-edge products. In his master thesis, he dedicated himself to applying deep learning to medical data to drive medical applications.

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Tim Großmann

Tim Großmann

Tim Großmann is a computer scientist with interest in diverse topics, ranging from AI and IoT to Security. He previously worked in the field of big data engineering at the Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence in Silicon Valley. In addition to that, he worked on an Eclipse project for IoT device abstractions in Singapore. He's highly involved in several open-source projects and actively speaks at tech meetups and conferences about his projects and experiences.

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Rohan Chikorde

Rohan Chikorde

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Joshua Görner

Joshua Görner

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Anshu Kumar

Anshu Kumar

Anshu Kumar is a data scientist with over 5 years of experience in solving complex problems in natural language processing and recommendation systems. He has an M.Tech. from IIT Madras in computer science. He is also a mentor at SpringBoard. His current interests are building semantic search, text summarization, and content recommendations for large-scale multilingual datasets.

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Piotr Malak

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Ankit Verma

Ankit Verma

Ankit Verma is interested in finding valuable insights from the data, Passionate about implementing Data Science techniques and expands the domain of my knowledge base. Strong hands-on Statistical modeling, Machine learning, Deep learning, AI, NLP, Python, SQL and R. During my professional journey till now, I have been playing multiple roles, which helped me increase my knowledge, expertise in different areas and gave me the ability to handle issues in a very quick and responsive way.

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