Better Plots
Data4All
Better Plots
Where are the Workshop Materials?
Materials
Reminder
This workshop adheres to the DaSL Learning Community Participation Guidelines:
Please be respectful of your fellow learners and help each other learn.
Remember, it’s dangerous to learn alone! So partner up with someone, it’s fun to learn together.
Instructors
- Ted Laderas, Director of Training & Community, Office of Chief Data Officer
- Chris Lo, Data Science Trainer, Office of Chief Data Officer
Introduce Yourself
In chat, please introduce yourself:
- Your Name
- Your position / group
- One thing that you think makes plots hard to interpret (font, too many colors, etc.)
How This Workshop Works
There are two separate tabs for each demo - an R one and a Python one. Pick your path. Both of them are loaded into the web browser, so feel free to switch between them to try out different approaches.
- For R users, we will be using the
ggplot2
package - For Python Users, we will be using the
seaborn
package.
The play button on the right of a code window lets you execute that code.
Note that there are two levels of setting options for Python code: the seaborn
level and the matplotlib
level, because seaborn
is an extension of matplotlib
. seaborn
options look like this:
"Python Rules") my_plot.set_xlabel(
Versus the matplotlib
level, which looks like this:
plt.show()
Because this is not JupyterLab, note that we always have to end our statements with plt.show()
to show the plot.
Overview of Data
We’re going to be using a TV Show dataset. Try running the code below for your language of interest.