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Published inNov 2016
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Dan Toomey
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Dan Toomey

Dan Toomey has been developing application software for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies, in roles from sole contributor to VP/CTO-level. For the last few years, he has been contracting for companies in the eastern Massachusetts area. Dan has been contracting under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written R for Data Science, Jupyter for Data Sciences, and the Jupyter Cookbook, all with Packt.
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Python graphics in Jupyter


How does Python graphics work in Jupyter?

I started another view for this named Python Graphics so as to distinguish the work from the previous work.

If we were to build a sample dataset of baby names and the number of births in a year of that name, we could then plot the data.

The Python coding is simple:

import pandas
import matplotlib
%matplotlib inline
baby_name = ['Alice','Charles','Diane','Edward']
number_births = [96, 155, 66, 272]
dataset = list(zip(baby_name,number_births))
df = pandas.DataFrame(data = dataset, columns=['Name', 'Number'])
df['Number'].plot()

The steps of the script are as follows:

  1. Import the graphics library (and data library) that we need.

  2. Define our data.

  3. Convert the data into a format that allows easy graphical display.

  4. Plot the data.

We would expect a graph of the number of births by baby name.

If we take the preceding script and place it into cells of our Jupyter Notebook, we get something that looks like the following screenshot:

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Dan Toomey

Dan Toomey has been developing application software for over 20 years. He has worked in a variety of industries and companies, in roles from sole contributor to VP/CTO-level. For the last few years, he has been contracting for companies in the eastern Massachusetts area. Dan has been contracting under Dan Toomey Software Corp. Dan has also written R for Data Science, Jupyter for Data Sciences, and the Jupyter Cookbook, all with Packt.
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