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Colormaps
- [Instructor] Colormaps are included with Matplotlib. The idea behind choosing a cool colormap, is to find a good representation of your data. It there an intuitive color scheme for the data? For example gold, silver, and bronze for medal winners. Blue for male, pink for female? There are three classes of colormaps. The sequential, the diverging, and the qualitative. The sequential should be used for representing information that has ordering. There is a change in lightness, often over a single hue. Diverging is to be used when the information being plotted deviates around a middle value. Here there are often two different colors being used. And finally, the qualitative class is used to represent information which does not have any ordering or relationship, and is often miscellaneous colors. Let's head over to the Jupiter notebook to look at a couple of examples. Let's use the pie chart as our first example, so we need to specify that the kind of plot that you want is a pie chart…
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