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James Church
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James Church lives in Clarksville, Tennessee, United States, where he enjoys teaching, programming, and playing board games with his wife, Michelle. He is an assistant professor of computer science at Austin Peay State University. He has consulted for various companies and a chemical laboratory for the purpose of performing data analysis work. James is the author of Learning Haskell Data Analysis.
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Creating compelling visualizations using EasyPlot

For this section, I would like to propose a question. As we get older, do our perceptions of movies increase with approval, decrease with approval, or stay about the same? In other words, what we are trying to figure out is: as we get older, do we appreciate movies more and rate them higher, do we appreciate movies less and rate them lower, or do they stay about the same? What we would like to do is pull together the data in this section, plot it, and see if we can answer that question. So, in this section, we're going to perform a table join to study age and the average movie rating. We're going to be parsing that information into a useable type for plotting, and then we're going to plot. Let's go back to our MovieLens IHaskell notebook and import Graphics.EasyPlot, it's a plotting library. This is shown...

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Published in: Oct 2018Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781789802863

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James Church

James Church lives in Clarksville, Tennessee, United States, where he enjoys teaching, programming, and playing board games with his wife, Michelle. He is an assistant professor of computer science at Austin Peay State University. He has consulted for various companies and a chemical laboratory for the purpose of performing data analysis work. James is the author of Learning Haskell Data Analysis.
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