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Big Data Architect's Handbook

You're reading from  Big Data Architect's Handbook

Product type Book
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788835824
Pages 486 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Concepts
Author (1):
Syed Muhammad Fahad Akhtar Syed Muhammad Fahad Akhtar
Profile icon Syed Muhammad Fahad Akhtar

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface
1. Why Big Data?
2. Big Data Environment Setup
3. Hadoop Ecosystem
4. NoSQL Database
5. Off-the-Shelf Commercial Tools
6. Containerization
7. Network Infrastructure
8. Cloud Infrastructure
9. Security and Monitoring
10. Frontend Architecture
11. Backend Architecture
12. Machine Learning
13. Artificial Intelligence
14. Elasticsearch
15. Structured Data
16. Unstructured Data
17. Data Visualization
18. Financial Trading System
19. Retail Recommendation System
20. Other Books You May Enjoy
Data Visualization

Data is a very powerful weapon. If used properly, it can lead to many victories. In the business world, victory means a happy customer while company remain competitive in the market. Sometimes data presented is in numerical form or in tabular form, which makes it very difficult to find a pattern or to visually analyze it.

On the other hand, if the same data is presented to you in graphical form, such as in the form of different types of charts or an interactive dashboard, most of the time it becomes easy to visualize what to look for, and it may lead to meaningful discoveries to help in a better understanding and analysis of the data.

In this chapter, we will go through the following data visualization libraries, which will help to present data in the form of different types of visual elements, such as charts:

  • Matplotlib
  • D3.js

Let's start with the first...

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