Creating Basic Plots with Pandas: Line, Scatter, Bar, Histograms and Box Plots
Introduction
Data visualization is the graphical representation of data and information. It is a powerful tool for understanding complex data and communicating insights to others. Data visualization can be used for a variety of purposes, such as identifying trends, patterns, and outliers, and exploring relationships between variables.
Pandas is a popular open-source data analysis library for Python. It provides powerful data structures and data analysis tools, including data visualization capabilities. Pandas visualization is built on top of the matplotlib library, which provides a wide range of customizable plots.
In this article, we will explore the basics of data visualization with pandas
. We will start with simple plots and progress to more complex visualizations. We will also cover best practices for creating effective visualizations and customizing pandas
plots.
Setting Up Pandas and Data
Before we can start visualizing data with pandas
, we need to install pandas
and load data into a pandas DataFrame.