Learning-Visualization

Some examples and resources for visualizing data.

These examples were made using Python 3.8 and Plotly 5.7.

Setup

Installing Python

Note: On macOS and Linux systems you may already have some version of Python installed.

To check, open a terminal and type:

$ python

See also: https://www.python.org/downloads/

Installing Plotly

In a terminal, type:

$ python -m pip install plotly

Or:

$ pip install plotly

See also: https://plotly.com/python/getting-started/

Testing the examples

On Mac / Linux

Download and extract the files to your user folder (e.g. /home/username/).

Example 1

$ python simple_plot_errorbars.py

Example 2

$ python simple_plot_map.py

Other resources

Maps

This webpage shows another intuitive example of creating colored maps.

You need to install Pandas to use it:

$ python -m pip install pandas

https://newbedev.com/python-plotly-choropleth-map-us-states-code-example

References

Plotly examples: https://plotly.com/python/

Python Tutorial: https://www.w3schools.com/python/default.asp