ipywidgets are interactive HTML elements that can be used in Jupyter Notebooks to interact with outputs such as tables and charts. This article briefly introduces ipywidgets and uses them to change the rolling day period in a chart for the rolling average of deaths from covid-19.
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Geographical maps can be a great way to present a global view of where data applies to different countries and regions. There are a number of third-party tools and libraries that can be used to help create these maps such as Basemap, Cartopy as well as Geopandas and Geoplot. This article will show how to use Geopandas …
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Under five mortality rate is an estimate for each particular country for that year based on the available information. The accuracy of this value varies from country to country and is dependent on the availability of quality data. The data produced is composed of the median value as well as upper and lower bound limits …
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A Bar Chart Race is an animation where the bars representing the data change in place on the chart to represent change over time. This is the second article to improve on the bar chart race to include changing categories over time while maintaining the color associated with each category.
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Bar charts present categories of data as rectangular bars with the heights or widths proportional to the values they represent. Horizontal bar charts are used in this article in which the length of the rectangular represents the value for each category. A standard or static bar chart represents one set of data and a …
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Pandas is a Python package that provides fast data manipulation and analysis of structured data. It has grown in popularity recently with the rise of data analytics and machine learning. The source code for pandas is available on GitHub, but it is more common to install the binary package using something like pip …
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It can be nice to add a footnote or a header note to a Matplotlib chart. The easiest way to do this is with annotate function. The exact position, size orientation can be controlled and multiple notes can be added to charts.
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