6.10. Visualization#

This section covers some tools to visualize your data and model.

6.10.1. Use Seaborn Style on Matplotlib Plots#

Seaborn style looks nicer than the default style of matplotlib, but matplotlib is more customizable. If you want to apply seaborn style on matplotlib plots, use seaborn.set_theme().

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import seaborn as sns

# Set seaborn style
sns.set_theme()

# Data for plotting
t = np.arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.01)
s = 1 + np.sin(2 * np.pi * t)

# Plot the data
plt.figure(figsize=(7, 5))
plt.plot(t, s)

plt.show()
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6.10.2. Graphviz: Create a Flowchart to Capture Your Ideas in Python#

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!pip install graphviz

Visualizing complex data and systems is difficult. Creating diagrams by hand is slow and prone to mistakes, especially with large datasets.

Graphviz offers an easy method to generate graphs using a declarative language.

Here’s a short code example to demonstrate the utility of Graphviz:

from graphviz import Graph 

# Instantiate a new Graph object
dot = Graph('Data Science Process', format='png')

# Add nodes
dot.node('A', 'Get Data')
dot.node('B', 'Clean, Prepare, & Manipulate Data')
dot.node('C', 'Train Model')
dot.node('D', 'Test Data')
dot.node('E', 'Improve')

# Connect these nodes
dot.edges(['AB', 'BC', 'CD', 'DE'])

# Save chart
dot.render('data_science_flowchart', view=True)
'data_science_flowchart.png'
dot 
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Link to graphviz

6.10.3. folium: Create an Interactive Map in Python#

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!pip install folium

If you want to create a map provided the location in a few lines of code, try folium. Folium is a Python library that allows you to create an interactive map.

import folium
m = folium.Map(location=[45.5236, -122.6750])

tooltip = 'Click me!'
folium.Marker([45.3288, -121.6625], popup='<i>Mt. Hood Meadows</i>',
              tooltip=tooltip).add_to(m)
m 
Make this Notebook Trusted to load map: File -> Trust Notebook

View the document of folium here.

6.10.4. dtreeviz: Visualize and Interpret a Decision Tree Model#

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!pip install dtreeviz

If you want to find an easy way to visualize and interpret a decision tree model, use dtreeviz.

from dtreeviz.trees import dtreeviz
from sklearn import tree
from sklearn.datasets import load_wine

wine = load_wine()
classifier = tree.DecisionTreeClassifier(max_depth=2)
classifier.fit(wine.data, wine.target)

vis = dtreeviz(
    classifier,
    wine.data,
    wine.target,
    target_name="wine_type",
    feature_names=wine.feature_names,
)

vis.view()

The image below shows the output of dtreeviz when applying it on DecisionTreeClassifier.

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Link to dtreeviz.

6.10.5. HiPlot - High Dimensional Interactive Plotting#

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!pip install hiplot 

If you are tuning hyperparameters of your machine learning model, it can be difficult to understand the relationships between different combinations of hyperparameters and a specific metric.

That is when HiPlot comes in handy. HiPlot allows you to discover patterns in high-dimensional data using parallel plots like below.

import hiplot as hip
data = [{'lr': 0.001, 'loss': 10.0, 'r2': 0.8, 'optimizer': 'SGD'},
        {'lr': 0.01, 'loss': 2.5, 'r2': 0.9, 'optimizer': 'Adam'},
        {'lr': 0.1, 'loss': 4, 'r2': 0.86, 'optimizer': 'Adam'}]
hip.Experiment.from_iterable(data).display()
HiPlot
Loading HiPlot...
<hiplot.ipython.IPythonExperimentDisplayed at 0x10b683730>

Link to HiPlot.

6.10.6. missingno.dendogram: Visualize Correlation Between Missing Data#

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!pip install missingno sklearn

Missing values can sometimes tell you how strongly the presence or absence of one variable affects the presence of another. To visualize the correlation between different columns based on the missing values, use missingno.dendogram.

from sklearn.datasets import fetch_openml

soybean = fetch_openml(name="soybean", as_frame=True)['data']
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/home/khuyen/book/venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/sklearn/datasets/_openml.py:404: UserWarning: Multiple active versions of the dataset matching the name soybean exist. Versions may be fundamentally different, returning version 1.
  warn("Multiple active versions of the dataset matching the name"
import missingno as msno

msno.dendrogram(soybean)
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The dendrogram uses a hierarchical clustering algorithm to bin variables against one another by their nullity correlation. Cluster leaves which linked together at a distance of zero fully predict one another’s presence. In the graph above, the nullity of seed-discolor fully predicts the nullity of germination.

Link to missingno.

6.10.7. matplotlib-venn: Create a Venn Diagram Using Python#

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!pip install matplotlib-venn

If you want to draw a venn diagram using Python, try matplotlib-venn. To create a venn diagram using matplotlib-venn, you can specify the size of each region:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib_venn import venn2

venn2(subsets = (8, 10, 5), set_labels = ('Are Healthy', 'Do Exercise'))
plt.show()
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… or specify the elements in each set:

venn2([set(['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']), set(['D', 'E', 'F'])], set_labels=['Group1', 'Group2'])
plt.show()
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You can also draw three cicles using venn3:

from matplotlib_venn import venn3
venn3(subsets = (5, 5, 3, 5, 3, 3, 2), set_labels = ('Are Healthy', 'Do Exercise', 'Eat Well'))
plt.show()
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Link to matplotlib-venn.

6.10.8. squarify: Plot Treemap in Python#

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!pip install squarify

A treemap splits a rectangle into sub-rectangles, whose sizes are proportional to their values. To plot a treemap in Python, use squarify.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import squarify   
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({'count': [8, 4, 3], 'role': ['DS', 'DE', 'DA']})

# Plot
squarify.plot(sizes=df['count'], label=df['role'])
plt.axis('off')
plt.show()
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Link to squarify.

6.10.9. UMAP: Dimension Reduction in Python#

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!pip install 'umap-learn[plot]'

It can be difficult to visualize a multi-dimensional dataset. Luckily, UMAP allows you to reduce the dimension of your dataset and create a 2D views of your data.

To understand how UMAP works, let’s try with the fruit dataset. In this dataset, we have the features of different fruits, such as mass, width, height, and color score. Our task is to classify which fruit a sample belongs to based on its features.

import warnings
warnings.simplefilter(action='ignore', category=FutureWarning)

from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
import pandas as pd

%matplotlib inline

Let’s start with loading and visualizing the data.

data = pd.read_table("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/susanli2016/Machine-Learning-with-Python/master/fruit_data_with_colors.txt")
data.head(10)
fruit_label fruit_name fruit_subtype mass width height color_score
0 1 apple granny_smith 192 8.4 7.3 0.55
1 1 apple granny_smith 180 8.0 6.8 0.59
2 1 apple granny_smith 176 7.4 7.2 0.60
3 2 mandarin mandarin 86 6.2 4.7 0.80
4 2 mandarin mandarin 84 6.0 4.6 0.79
5 2 mandarin mandarin 80 5.8 4.3 0.77
6 2 mandarin mandarin 80 5.9 4.3 0.81
7 2 mandarin mandarin 76 5.8 4.0 0.81
8 1 apple braeburn 178 7.1 7.8 0.92
9 1 apple braeburn 172 7.4 7.0 0.89
sns.pairplot(data.drop(columns=['fruit_label', 'fruit_subtype']), hue='fruit_name')
plt.show()
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We can see some distinctions between different fruits in the pairwise feature scatterplot matrix. Now to visualize all 4 features in a 2D plot, we start with creating a UMAP object.

import umap

reducer = umap.UMAP()
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  from .autonotebook import tqdm as notebook_tqdm

Next, we scale the features so that they are all on the same scale.

features = data.iloc[:, 3:].values
scaled_features = StandardScaler().fit_transform(features)

Lastly, we use the UMAP object to reduce the dimension of the dataset and plot the features as a scatter plot.

embedding = reducer.fit_transform(scaled_features)
embedding.shape
(59, 2)
pd.DataFrame(embedding, columns=['Dimension 1', 'Dimension 2']).to_csv('~/Downloads/embedding.csv')
plt.style.use('dark_background')

colors = ["#72BEFA", "#E583B6", "#72FCDB", "white"]
color_list = [colors[label - 1] for label in data.fruit_label]

plt.scatter(
    embedding[:, 0],
    embedding[:, 1],
    c=color_list,
    s=80,
)
plt.show()
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Now we can see some distinctions in features between 4 different fruits in a 2D plot.

Link to UMAP.

6.10.10. Evidently: Detect and Visualize Data Drift#

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!pip install evidently

Data drift is unexpected changes in model input data that can lead to model performance degradation. Since your code is built around the characteristics of your data, it is important to detect data drift when it occurs. Evidently allows you to do exactly in a few lines of code.

In the code below, we use Evidently to detect changes in feature distribution.

import pandas as pd
from sklearn import datasets

from evidently.dashboard import Dashboard
from evidently.tabs import DataDriftTab

california = datasets.fetch_california_housing()
california = pd.DataFrame(california.data, columns = california.feature_names)
california_data_drift_report = Dashboard(tabs=[DataDriftTab])
california_data_drift_report.calculate(california[:1000], california[1000:], column_mapping = None)
california_data_drift_report.show()

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Find other features of Evidently here.

6.10.11. Mermaid: Create Class Diagrams for Your Python Classes Using Text and Code#

If you want to create class diagrams to explain your Python classes, use Mermaid. Mermaid lets you create diagrams and visualizations using text and code.

For example, writing this piece of code on Mermaid Live Editor:

 classDiagram
      Animal <|-- Dog
      Animal <|-- Cat
      Animal <|-- Fish
      Animal : int age
      Animal : str gender
      Animal: is_mammal()
      Animal: is_pet()
      class Dog{
          str fur_color
          bark()
          run()
      }
      class Cat{
          str fur_color
          meow()
          run()
      }
      class Fish{
          str scale_color
          swim()
      }

… will create a diagram like below:

6.10.12. Mermaid: Create Flow Chart Using Code#

Mermaid also allows you to create a flow chart using simple code logic.

For example, writing this piece of code on Mermaid Live Editor:

graph TD
    A[Should you go to work today?] --> B(Do you like working?)
    B --Yes--> C{Go to work}
    B --No--> D(Are you feeling sick?)
    D --Yes--> E{Go to the doctor}
    D --No--> F(Do you have a lot of work to do?)
    F --Yes--> H(And you don't want to go?)
    F --No--> H  
    H --Yes, I don't want to-->I(You signed up for this. Get dressed and go to work!) 
    

… will create a diagram like below:

Find other diagrams you can create with Mermaid here.

6.10.13. pretty-confusion-matrix: Plot a Pretty and Comprehensible Confusion Matrix#

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!pip install -U pretty-confusion-matrix

It can be difficult to understand a confusion matrix, especially when there are many classes in the target.

import numpy as np
from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix

y_test = np.array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
prediction = np.array([3, 2, 4, 3, 5])

confusion_matrix(y_test, prediction)
array([[0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
       [0, 1, 0, 0, 0],
       [0, 0, 0, 1, 0],
       [0, 0, 1, 0, 0],
       [0, 0, 0, 0, 1]])

To make your confusion matrix prettier and easier to understand, use pretty_confusion_matrix.

from pretty_confusion_matrix import pp_matrix_from_data


cmap = 'PuRd'
pp_matrix_from_data(y_test, prediction, cmap=cmap)
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Link to pretty confusion matrix.

6.10.14. matplotx: Useful Extensions for Matplotlib#

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!pip install matplotx[all]

Have you ever wanted to create matplotlib plot in dark mode? If so, use matplotx.

For example, to use Dracula style, add:

plt.style.use(matplotx.styles.dracula)

to the code.

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotx
from IPython.core.pylabtools import figsize

# Create data
np.random.seed(2)
N = 50
x = np.random.rand(N)
y = np.random.rand(N)
colors = np.random.rand(N)
area = (30 * np.random.rand(N))**2  # 0 to 15 point radii

# Use dracula style
plt.style.use(matplotx.styles.dracula)

# Create a scatter plot
plt.scatter(x, y, s=area, c=colors)
figsize(10, 10)
plt.show()
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Other styles that matplotx provides are:

  • ‘aura’,

  • ‘ayu’,

  • ‘challenger_deep’,

  • ‘dracula’,

  • ‘dufte’,

  • ‘dufte_bar’,

  • ‘duftify’,

  • ‘github’,

  • ‘gruvbox’,

  • ‘nord’,

  • ‘onedark’,

  • ‘pacoty’,

  • ‘pitaya_smoothie’,

  • ‘solarized’,

  • ‘tab10’,

  • ‘tab20’,

  • ‘tab20r’,

  • ‘tokyo_night’

Each style might have dark and light mode. For example, to use the dark mode version of aura style, type:

matplotx.styles.aura['dark']
{'lines.color': 'edecee',
 'patch.edgecolor': 'edecee',
 'text.color': 'edecee',
 'axes.facecolor': '15141b',
 'axes.edgecolor': 'edecee',
 'axes.labelcolor': 'edecee',
 'xtick.color': 'edecee',
 'ytick.color': 'edecee',
 'legend.framealpha': 0,
 'grid.color': 'edecee',
 'figure.facecolor': '15141b',
 'figure.edgecolor': '15141b',
 'savefig.facecolor': '15141b',
 'savefig.edgecolor': '15141b',
 'boxplot.boxprops.color': 'edecee',
 'boxplot.capprops.color': 'edecee',
 'boxplot.flierprops.color': 'edecee',
 'boxplot.flierprops.markeredgecolor': 'edecee',
 'boxplot.whiskerprops.color': 'edecee',
 'axes.prop_cycle': cycler('color', ['#82e2ff', '#ffca85', '#61ffca', '#ff6767', '#a277ff', '#f694ff', '#6d6d6d'])}

Link to matplotx.

6.10.15. ipysankeywidget: IPython Sankey Diagram Widget#

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!pip install ipysankeywidget
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!jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix ipysankeywidget
!jupyter nbextension enable --py --sys-prefix widgetsnbextension
Enabling notebook extension jupyter-sankey-widget/extension...
      - Validating: OK
Enabling notebook extension jupyter-js-widgets/extension...
      - Validating: OK

Sankey diagram is a flow diagram that depicts flows, where the width of the lines is proportional to the flow rate. If you want to quickly create a Sankey diagram in your Jupyter Notebook, use ipysankeywidget.

import pandas as pd
from ipysankeywidget import SankeyWidget

df = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "source": ["Anna", "Josh", "Anna", "Ben", "Ben"],
        "target": ["New York", "New York", "Chicago", "San Jose", "Milwaukee"],
        "type": [
            "bussiness trip",
            "family visit",
            "vacation",
            "family visit",
            "bussiness trip",
        ],
        "value": [2, 3, 1, 3, 2],
    }
)

flows = df.to_dict("records")
SankeyWidget(links=flows).auto_save_png("diagram.png")

Link to ipysankeywidget.

6.10.16. ipyvizzu: Add Animation to Your Charts with Ease#

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!pip install ipyvizzu

Sometimes you might want to add animations to your chart to show your audience the transition between one plot to another plot. However, it can be complicated to do that with matplotlib or Javascript.

With ipyvizzu, you can easily add animations to your plot in couples of lines of code inside your Jupyter Notebook.

In the code below, I use ipyvizzu to visualize the relationship between animals that can lay eggs and animals that are airborne.

from sklearn.datasets import fetch_openml

zoo = fetch_openml(data_id=965)["frame"]

df = zoo[["eggs", "airborne"]]
df = df.astype("object")
df["eggs"] = df["eggs"].map({"false": "no eggs", "true": "has eggs"})
df["airborne"] = df["airborne"].map({"false": "not airborne", "true": "is airborne"})
df["Count"] = 1
df.head(10)
eggs airborne Count
0 no eggs not airborne 1
1 no eggs not airborne 1
2 has eggs not airborne 1
3 no eggs not airborne 1
4 no eggs not airborne 1
5 no eggs not airborne 1
6 no eggs not airborne 1
7 has eggs not airborne 1
8 has eggs not airborne 1
9 no eggs not airborne 1
from ipyvizzu import Chart, Data, Config, Style

data = Data()
data.add_data_frame(df)

chart = Chart(width="640px", height="360px")

chart.animate(data)

chart.animate(
    Config({"x": "Count", "y": "eggs", "label": "Count", "title": "Animals in the zoo"})
)
chart.animate(
    Config(
        {
            "x": ["Count", "airborne"],
            "label": ["Count", "airborne"],
            "color": "airborne",
        }
    )
)

chart.animate(Config({"x": "Count", "y": ["eggs", "airborne"]}))

Link to ipyvizzu.

6.10.17. ipyvizzu-story: Create an Interactive Presentation in Your Jupyter Notebook#

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!pip install ipyvizzu-story

If you want to create an interactive presentation using Python in your Jupyter Notebook, use ipyvizzu-story.

import seaborn as sns  

df = sns.load_dataset("penguins")
df = df[['species', 'sex']].dropna()
df = df.astype("object")
df["count"] = 1
df.head(10)
species sex count
0 Adelie Male 1
1 Adelie Female 1
2 Adelie Female 1
4 Adelie Female 1
5 Adelie Male 1
6 Adelie Female 1
7 Adelie Male 1
12 Adelie Female 1
13 Adelie Male 1
14 Adelie Male 1
from ipyvizzu import Data, Config
from ipyvizzustory import Story, Slide, Step

data = Data()
data.add_data_frame(df)
story = Story(data=data)

slide1 = Slide(
    Step(
        Config(
            {
                "x": ["count", "sex"],
                "label": ["count", "sex"],
                "color": "sex",
            }
        )
    )
)
story.add_slide(slide1)

slide2 = Slide(
    Step(
        Config({"x": "count", "y": ["species", "sex"]}),
    )
)
story.add_slide(slide2)

story.play()

Link to ipyvizzu-store.

6.10.18. Lux: A Python API for Intelligent Visual Discovery#

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!pip install lux-api

Have you ever taken a while to come up with the visualizations for your data? With Lux, you can get some suggestions on what to visualize.

To use Lux, simply import it.

from sklearn.datasets import load_wine
import lux  

wine = load_wine(as_frame=True)['frame'] 
wine
wine.exported['Correlation'][0]
wine.exported['Occurrence'][0]

Link to Lux.

6.10.19. Add Statistical Significance Annotations on Seaborn Plots#

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!pip install seaborn statannotations

Have you ever looked at two box plots and wondered if there is a significant difference between the means of the two groups? statannotations makes it easy for you to add statistical significance annotations on seaborn plots.

import seaborn as sns 
from statannotations.Annotator import Annotator
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
df = sns.load_dataset('taxis')
df.head(10)
pickup dropoff passengers distance fare tip tolls total color payment pickup_zone dropoff_zone pickup_borough dropoff_borough
0 2019-03-23 20:21:09 2019-03-23 20:27:24 1 1.60 7.0 2.15 0.0 12.95 yellow credit card Lenox Hill West UN/Turtle Bay South Manhattan Manhattan
1 2019-03-04 16:11:55 2019-03-04 16:19:00 1 0.79 5.0 0.00 0.0 9.30 yellow cash Upper West Side South Upper West Side South Manhattan Manhattan
2 2019-03-27 17:53:01 2019-03-27 18:00:25 1 1.37 7.5 2.36 0.0 14.16 yellow credit card Alphabet City West Village Manhattan Manhattan
3 2019-03-10 01:23:59 2019-03-10 01:49:51 1 7.70 27.0 6.15 0.0 36.95 yellow credit card Hudson Sq Yorkville West Manhattan Manhattan
4 2019-03-30 13:27:42 2019-03-30 13:37:14 3 2.16 9.0 1.10 0.0 13.40 yellow credit card Midtown East Yorkville West Manhattan Manhattan
5 2019-03-11 10:37:23 2019-03-11 10:47:31 1 0.49 7.5 2.16 0.0 12.96 yellow credit card Times Sq/Theatre District Midtown East Manhattan Manhattan
6 2019-03-26 21:07:31 2019-03-26 21:17:29 1 3.65 13.0 2.00 0.0 18.80 yellow credit card Battery Park City Two Bridges/Seward Park Manhattan Manhattan
7 2019-03-22 12:47:13 2019-03-22 12:58:17 0 1.40 8.5 0.00 0.0 11.80 yellow NaN Murray Hill Flatiron Manhattan Manhattan
8 2019-03-23 11:48:50 2019-03-23 12:06:14 1 3.63 15.0 1.00 0.0 19.30 yellow credit card East Harlem South Midtown Center Manhattan Manhattan
9 2019-03-08 16:18:37 2019-03-08 16:26:57 1 1.52 8.0 1.00 0.0 13.30 yellow credit card Lincoln Square East Central Park Manhattan Manhattan

In the code below, we use an independent t-test to compare the means of two independent groups.

x = 'pickup_borough'
y = 'total'
order = ['Manhattan', 'Brooklyn', 'Bronx', 'Queens']
ax = sns.boxplot(data=df, x=x, y=y, order=order)
pairs = [('Manhattan', 'Queens'), ('Manhattan', 'Bronx'), ('Manhattan', 'Brooklyn')]

annotator = Annotator(ax, pairs, data=df, x=x, y=y, order=order)
annotator.configure(test='t-test_ind')
annotator.apply_and_annotate()
plt.show()
p-value annotation legend:
      ns: p <= 1.00e+00
       *: 1.00e-02 < p <= 5.00e-02
      **: 1.00e-03 < p <= 1.00e-02
     ***: 1.00e-04 < p <= 1.00e-03
    ****: p <= 1.00e-04

Manhattan vs. Brooklyn: t-test independent samples, P_val:3.507e-06 t=-4.643e+00
Manhattan vs. Bronx: t-test independent samples, P_val:4.508e-09 t=-5.874e+00
Manhattan vs. Queens: t-test independent samples, P_val:7.643e-171 t=-2.880e+01
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From the plot above, we can see that there is statistical evidence that the mean taxi fare in Manhattan is significantly different from the mean taxi fare in Brooklyn or Bronx, or Queens.

Link to statannotations.

6.10.20. Automatically Adjust Annotations in Matplotlib for Readability#

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!pip install adjustText

If you want to automatically adjust annotations in a matplotlib plot for readability, use the library adjustText.

import numpy as np
def plot_text(x, y):
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    plt.plot(x, y, 'bo')
    texts = [plt.text(x[i], y[i], 'Text%s' %i, ha='center', va='center') for i in range(len(x))]
    return texts
np.random.seed(1)
x, y = np.random.random((2,40))
plot_text(x, y)
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from adjustText import adjust_text

texts = plot_text(x, y)
adjust_text(texts)
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Link to adjustText.

6.10.21. Bloxs: Create an Attractive Display in Your Jupyter Notebook#

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pip install bloxs

If you want to create an attractive display for specific information in your notebook, try bloxs. bloxs is a Python library that is ideal for building dashboards, reports, and apps in the notebook.

from bloxs import B
B(22, "Chickens 🐥 in the backyard.")
22 Chickens 🐥 in the backyard.
B("Growth", "on July", points=[1,4,2,3,5,6])
Growth on July
B("Growth", "on July", points=[1,4,2,3,5,6], chart_type="bar")
Growth on July
B("68%", "Loading progress", progress=68)
68% Loading progress
B([
    B(22, "Chickens 🐥 in the backyard."),
    B("68%", "Loading progress", progress=68),
    B("Growth", "on July", points=[1,4,2,3,5,6])
])
22 Chickens 🐥 in the backyard.
68% Loading progress
Growth on July

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6.10.22. LovelyPlots: Create Nice Matplotlib Figures for Presentations#

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!pip install LovelyPlots

If you want to transform your matplotlib plots into nice figures for scientific papers or presentations, try LovelyPlots. To use LovelyPlots, simply add plt.style.use(ipynb) to your code.

To see how a figure created by LovelyPlots looks like, let’s generate a plotting function, which takes style as its argument

import lovelyplots
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd


def plot(style: list):
    plt.style.use(style)

    np.random.seed(1)
    # Data
    df = pd.DataFrame(
        {
            "x_values": range(1, 11),
            "y1_values": np.random.randn(10),
            "y2_values": np.random.randn(10) + range(1, 11),
            "y3_values": np.random.randn(10) + range(11, 21),
        }
    )

    plt.plot(
        "x_values",
        "y1_values",
        data=df,
    )
    plt.plot(
        "x_values",
        "y2_values",
        data=df,
    )
    plt.plot(
        "x_values",
        "y3_values",
        data=df,
    )

    # show graph
    plt.show()

Create a figure using the default style of matplotlib.

plot(["default"])
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Create the figures using styles from LovelyPlots.

plot(["ipynb", "colors10-markers"])
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plot(["ipynb", "colors5-light"])
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plot(["ipynb", "colors10-ls"])
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6.10.23. gif: The Easiest Way to Animate Your matplotlib Plot#

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!pip install gif

If you want to effortlessly animate your matplotlib plot in Python, use gif.

import pandas as pd
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import random

import gif


START = pd.Timestamp("2019-04-20")
END = pd.Timestamp("2020-05-01")


data = [random.uniform(0.5, 10) for _ in range(378)]

df = pd.DataFrame({"date": pd.date_range(start=START, end=END), "time": data})


@gif.frame
def plot(date):
    d = df[df["date"] <= date]
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(5, 3), dpi=100)
    plt.plot(d["date"], d["time"])
    ax.set_xlim([START, END])
    ax.set_ylim([0, 10])
    ax.set_xticks([date])
    ax.set_yticks([0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10])
    ax.set_xticklabels([date.strftime("%b '%y")])
    ax.set_yticklabels([0, 2, 4, 6, 8, "\n10\nhours"])


frames = []
for date in df["date"]:
    frame = plot(date)
    frames.append(frame)

gif.save(frames, "phone.gif", duration=35)

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6.10.24. Visualize the Frequency Tokens in a Text Corpora#

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!pip install yellowbrick

If you want to quickly visualize the frequency of tokens in a collection of text documents, use the combination of scikit-learn’s CountVectorizer and Yellowbrick’s FreqDistVisualizer.

from sklearn.datasets import fetch_20newsgroups

newsgroups_train = fetch_20newsgroups(subset='train')
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer
from yellowbrick.text import FreqDistVisualizer


import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.figure(figsize=(8,4))

# Convert corpora to a matrix of token counts
# and remove stop words
vectorizer = CountVectorizer(stop_words='english') 
docs       = vectorizer.fit_transform(newsgroups_train['data'])
features   = vectorizer.get_feature_names()

# Plot a token frequency distribution 
visualizer = FreqDistVisualizer(features=features, n=10)
visualizer.fit(docs)
visualizer.show()
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<AxesSubplot: title={'center': 'Frequency Distribution of Top 10 tokens'}>

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6.10.25. prettymaps: Generate Pretty Painting of a Location in Python#

If you want to generate a pretty painting of a location from OpenStreetMap in Python, use prettymaps.

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pip install prettymaps
import prettymaps

plot = prettymaps.plot('Stad van de Zon, Heerhugowaard, Netherlands')

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6.10.26. Vizro: Create Modular Data Visualization Applications in Python#

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!pip install -U plotly vizro 'typing-extensions==4.5.0'

If you want to use modular and simple Python code to create beautiful dashboards, try Vizro.

import vizro.plotly.express as px
from vizro import Vizro
import vizro.models as vm

df = px.data.iris()

page = vm.Page(
    title="My first dashboard",
    components=[
        vm.Graph(id="scatter_chart", figure=px.scatter(df, x="sepal_length", y="petal_width", color="species")),
        vm.Graph(id="hist_chart", figure=px.histogram(df, x="sepal_width", color="species")),
    ],
    controls=[
        vm.Filter(column="species", selector=vm.Dropdown(value=["ALL"])),
    ],
)

dashboard = vm.Dashboard(pages=[page])

Vizro().build(dashboard).run()

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6.10.27. Drag-and-Drop Visualizations with PyGWalker#

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!pip install pygwalker -q

EDA is a crucial step in any Data Science project. For large datasets, EDA can be time-consuming.

PyGWalker simplifies the process of creating visualizations by allowing users to drag and drop variables to create charts without writing much code.

You can use PyGWalker without changing your existing workflow. For example, you can call up PyGWalker with the Dataframe loaded in this way:

import pygwalker as pyg
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("https://kanaries-app.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/public-datasets/bike_sharing_dc.csv", parse_dates=['date'])
df.head(10)
date month season hour year holiday temperature feeling_temp humidity winspeed casual registered count work yes or not am or pm Day of the week
0 2011-01-01 1 winter 0 2011 no 3.28 3.0014 81.0 0.0000 3 13 16 0 am 6
1 2011-01-01 1 winter 1 2011 no 2.34 1.9982 80.0 0.0000 8 32 40 0 am 6
2 2011-01-01 1 winter 2 2011 no 2.34 1.9982 80.0 0.0000 5 27 32 0 am 6
3 2011-01-01 1 winter 3 2011 no 3.28 3.0014 75.0 0.0000 3 10 13 0 am 6
4 2011-01-01 1 winter 4 2011 no 3.28 3.0014 75.0 0.0000 0 1 1 0 am 6
5 2011-01-01 1 winter 5 2011 no 3.28 1.0016 75.0 6.0032 0 1 1 0 am 6
6 2011-01-01 1 winter 6 2011 no 2.34 1.9982 80.0 0.0000 2 0 2 0 am 6
7 2011-01-01 1 winter 7 2011 no 1.40 1.0016 86.0 0.0000 1 2 3 0 am 6
8 2011-01-01 1 winter 8 2011 no 3.28 3.0014 75.0 0.0000 1 7 8 0 am 6
9 2011-01-01 1 winter 9 2011 no 7.04 7.0010 76.0 0.0000 8 6 14 0 am 6

And then just walk around!

pyg.walk(df)
<pygwalker.api.pygwalker.PygWalker at 0x137d39650>

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6.10.28. hvPlot: One API for Multiple Plotting Libraries#

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!pip install hvplot

Switching between plotting libraries lets you leverage their unique strengths. However, learning multiple specific APIs can significantly increase your cognitive load.

hvPlot provides a unified, high-level API that allows using the same syntax for Bokeh, Matplotlib, and Plotly. Here’s an example of how hvPlot can be used with different backends:

Default (Bokeh):

import hvplot.pandas
from bokeh.sampledata.penguins import data as df

hvplot.extension('plotly')

df.hvplot.scatter(x='bill_length_mm', y='bill_depth_mm', by='species')

Matplotlib:

import hvplot.pandas

hvplot.extension('matplotlib')

df.hvplot.scatter(x='bill_length_mm', y='bill_depth_mm', by='species')

Plotly:

import hvplot.pandas
from bokeh.sampledata.penguins import data as df

hvplot.extension('plotly')

df.hvplot.scatter(x='bill_length_mm', y='bill_depth_mm', by='species')

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