Data Visualization with Python

"A picture is worth a thousand words". We are all familiar with this expression. It especially applies when trying to explain the insight obtained from the analysis of increasingly large data sets. Data visualization plays an essential role in the representation of both small and large scale data. One of the key skills of a data scientist is the ability to tell a compelling story, visualizing data and findings in an approachable and stimulating way. Learning how to leverage a software tool to visualize data will also enable you to extract information, better understand the data, and make more effective decisions. The main goal of this course is to teach you how to take data that at first glance has little meaning and present that data in a form that makes sense to people. Various techniques have been developed for presenting data visually but in this course, we will be using several data visualization libraries in Python, namely Matplotlib, seaborn, and Folium.

Module 1 - Introduction to Visualization Tools

• Introduction to Data Visualization

• Introduction to Matplotlib

• Basic Plotting with Matplotlib

• Dataset on Immigration to Canada

• Line Plots

Module 2 - Basic Visualization Tools

• Area Plots

• Histograms

• Bar Charts

Module 3 - Specialized Visualization Tools

• Pie Charts

• Box Plots

• Scatter Plots

• Bubble Plots

Module 4 - Advanced Visualization Tools

• Waffle Charts

• Word Clouds

• Seaborn and Regression Plots

Module 5 - Creating Maps and Visualizing Geospatial Data

• Introduction to Folium

• Maps with Markers

• Choropleth Maps