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Eryk Lewinson
Eryk Lewinson
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Eryk Lewinson

Eryk Lewinson received his master's degree in Quantitative Finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam. In his professional career, he has gained experience in the practical application of data science methods while working in risk management and data science departments of two "big 4" companies, a Dutch neo-broker and most recently the Netherlands' largest online retailer. Outside of work, he has written over a hundred articles about topics related to data science, which have been viewed more than 3 million times. In his free time, he enjoys playing video games, reading books, and traveling with his girlfriend.
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Creating interactive visualizations

In the first recipe, we have already given a short preview of creating interactive visualizations in Python. In this recipe, we will show how to create interactive line plots using 3 different libraries: cufflinks, plotly, and bokeh. Naturally, these are not the only available libraries for interactive visualizations. Another popular one you might want to investigate further is altair.

The plotly library is built on top of d3.js (a JavaScript library used for creating interactive visualizations in web browsers) and is known for creating high-quality plots with a significant degree of interactivity (inspecting values of observations, viewing tooltips of a given point, zooming in, and so on). Plotly is also the company responsible for developing this library and provides hosting for our visualizations. We can create an infinite number of offline visualizations and a few free ones to share online (with a limited number of views per day).

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Python for Finance Cookbook - Second Edition
Published in: Dec 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803243191

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Eryk Lewinson

Eryk Lewinson received his master's degree in Quantitative Finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam. In his professional career, he has gained experience in the practical application of data science methods while working in risk management and data science departments of two "big 4" companies, a Dutch neo-broker and most recently the Netherlands' largest online retailer. Outside of work, he has written over a hundred articles about topics related to data science, which have been viewed more than 3 million times. In his free time, he enjoys playing video games, reading books, and traveling with his girlfriend.
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