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Kevin Jolly
Kevin Jolly
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Kevin Jolly

Kevin Jolly is a formally educated data scientist with a master's degree in data science from the prestigious King's College London. Kevin works as a statistical analyst with a digital healthcare start-up, Connido Limited, in London, where he is primarily involved in leading the data science projects that the company undertakes. He has built machine learning pipelines for small and big data, with a focus on scaling such pipelines into production for the products that the company has built. Kevin is also the author of a book titled Hands-On Data Visualization with Bokeh, published by Packt. He is the editor-in-chief of Linear, a weekly online publication on data science software and products.
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Creating annotations to convey supplemental information

When creating plots it's fundamental to get across the story that the information in the plot is trying to convey. This can be done by adding titles, legends, and color maps to your plot.

Adding titles to plots

Titles are used to tell the reader about the overall story of the plot.

For the purposes of this chapter, we will use the S&P 500 stock data found on Kaggle. (https://www.kaggle.com/camnugent/sandp500/data).

We will also filter the data to just information about Apple stocks, as illustrated in the following code:

#Import the required packages

import pandas as pd

#Read in the data

df = pd.read_csv('all_stocks_5yr.csv')

#Convert the date column into...
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Kevin Jolly

Kevin Jolly is a formally educated data scientist with a master's degree in data science from the prestigious King's College London. Kevin works as a statistical analyst with a digital healthcare start-up, Connido Limited, in London, where he is primarily involved in leading the data science projects that the company undertakes. He has built machine learning pipelines for small and big data, with a focus on scaling such pipelines into production for the products that the company has built. Kevin is also the author of a book titled Hands-On Data Visualization with Bokeh, published by Packt. He is the editor-in-chief of Linear, a weekly online publication on data science software and products.
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