March Edition: Data Visualization
A large part of the human brain is devoted to vision; with some studies claiming that up to 80% of sensory input is processed by the visual pathway [1]. The importance of vision is demonstrated by the use of the verb “see”. We see dreams; we see a solution etc. Hence, it is no wonder that data visualization is an essential part of data science. In its greatest moments, data visualization can summarize in a few seconds, the results of days of data analysis. On the other hand, done wrong, it could bring the end to a presentation or even to a whole project.
A good visualization is not just a picture; it is a story. The story of one’s journey in the data. The following articles are a selection of our best stories on data visualization. We hope that they will inspire you when creating yours.
Dimitris Panagopoulos — Editorial Associate
Announcement from our team: We are publishing our first video from the Toronto Machine Learning Summit. More will come. We hope that you like it. 🎤
11 Free tools to get started with Data Visualisation-Easily & Instantly
By Parul Pandey — 9 min read
Jump right into the Data Visualisation process with these easy and intuitive tools.
The Power of Visualization
By Matthew Stewart, PhD Researcher — 18 min read
A picture really does say a thousand words.
The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Data Scraping, Cleaning, and Visualization
By Anne Bonner — 11 min read
How to take your model from unremarkable to amazing simply by cleaning and preprocessing your data
The Next Level of Data Visualization in Python
By Will Koehrsen — 8 min read
How to make great-looking, fully-interactive plots with a single line of Python
Matplotlib — Making data visualization interesting
By Karan Bhanot — 9 min read
Data visualization is a key step to understand the dataset and draw inferences from it.
It’s 2019 — Make Your Data Visualizations Interactive with Plotly
By Jeff Hale — 12 min read
Find the path to make awesome figures quickly with Express and Cufflinks
The Simpsons meets Data Visualization
By Adam Reevesman — 9 min read
There are few things I love more than The Simpsons
Animations with Matplotlib
By Parul Pandey — 6 min read
Using the matplotlib library to create some interesting animations.
3 Awesome Visualization Techniques for every dataset
By Rahul Agarwal — 8 min read
And Learn a little about Football while at it
We also thank all the great new writers who joined us recently Ihab Ilyas, Qian (Aria) Li, Kurtis Pykes, Donat Shaher, Dorian Lazar, Ian Rowan, Anton Muehlemann, Ellie Harris, Sujeewa Kumaratunga PhD, Thomas Di Martino, Andre Ye, Yosi Pramajaya, Matthew Harper, Ryan A. Mardani, Shruti Turner, Ilias Miraoui, Dave Luo, Ian Baldwin, Kathrin Verestoun, Seho Lee, YoonWooJeong, and many others. We invite you to take a look at their profiles and check out their work.
References:
[1] C. Haupt, A. B. Huber, “How axons see their way — axonal guidance in the visual system”, Frontiers in Bioscience 13, 3136–3149, January 1, 2008
