Heatmap Basics with Seaborn

A guide for how to create heatmaps with Matplotlib and Seaborn

Thiago Carvalho
Towards Data Science
8 min readJun 29, 2020

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The idea is straightforward, replace numbers with colors.

Now, this visualization style has come a long way from simple color-coded tables. It became widely used with geospatial data. Its commonly applied for describing the density or intensity of variables, visualizing patterns, variance, and even anomalies.

Correlation Matrix — Composition of a sample of Cereals

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