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Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563452
Pages 788 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
Stefanie Molin Stefanie Molin
Profile icon Stefanie Molin

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface Section 1: Getting Started with Pandas
Chapter 1: Introduction to Data Analysis Chapter 2: Working with Pandas DataFrames Section 2: Using Pandas for Data Analysis
Chapter 3: Data Wrangling with Pandas Chapter 4: Aggregating Pandas DataFrames Chapter 5: Visualizing Data with Pandas and Matplotlib Chapter 6: Plotting with Seaborn and Customization Techniques Section 3: Applications – Real-World Analyses Using Pandas
Chapter 7: Financial Analysis – Bitcoin and the Stock Market Chapter 8: Rule-Based Anomaly Detection Section 4: Introduction to Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn
Chapter 9: Getting Started with Machine Learning in Python Chapter 10: Making Better Predictions – Optimizing Models Chapter 11: Machine Learning Anomaly Detection Section 5: Additional Resources
Chapter 12: The Road Ahead Solutions
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Customizing visualizations

So far, all of the code we've learned for creating data visualizations has been for making the visualization itself. Now that we have a strong foundation, we are ready to learn how to add reference lines, control colors and textures, and include annotations.

In the 3-customizing_visualizations.ipynb notebook, let's handle our imports and read in the Facebook stock prices and earthquake datasets:

>>> %matplotlib inline
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> fb = pd.read_csv(
...     'data/fb_stock_prices_2018.csv', 
...     index_col='date', 
...     parse_dates=True
... )
>>> quakes = pd.read_csv('data/earthquakes.csv')

Tip

Changing the style in which the plots are created is an easy way to change their look and feel without setting each aspect separately. To set...

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