Stage 1 · Lesson 7 of 9
Charts that make one clear point
Charts are how you spot problems in data and how you explain results to people who will not read a table. Learn 's object style, fig, ax = plt.subplots(), because pandas plotting and libraries like seaborn are built on it. Match the chart to the question.
A shows how one number is spread out. A shows how two numbers relate. A line chart shows change over time, and a bar chart compares categories.
Every chart should make one point. Give it a title that states that point, both axes with units, and pick a sensible scale.
Common trapa default chart with unlabelled axes, or a bar chart whose y-axis does not start at zero, which makes small differences look big.
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Resources for this stage
Start with· follow one of these
- CoursePaidGrokking Python Fundamentals
Design Gurus · Beginner · $50
Core Python with an exercise after nearly every lesson, before the data libraries
- BookFreePython for Data Analysis, 3rd Edition
Wes McKinney · Beginner
Free online: NumPy, pandas and plotting from pandas' own creator