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Seaborn basic plotting - pandas Tutorial
From the course: pandas Essential Training
Seaborn basic plotting
- [Presenter] Seaborn Basic Plotting. Seaborn is a visualization library based on Matplotlib. One of the reasons to use Seaborn is that it produces beautiful statistical plots. It is very important to realize that Seaborn is a complement and not a substitute to Matplotlib. Now one of the advantages again with using Seaborn is that it works very well with pandas. Seaborn has an excellent examples gallery that provides plots on the website, and if you click on any of the plots, it provides the code to generate that plot. Seaborn, as with Matplotlib, has methods for bar plots, histograms and pie charts. Let's take a look at an example of one of the methods, countplot. Countplot has very similar parameters to Matplotlib. The data parameter for countplot is where you provide the DataFrame or the source for the data. The hue is for the categorical variables. A categorical variable is one that can only take a fixed number of values. In the Olympics dataset, we have a couple of examples of…
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