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Data Visualization with Python

TRAINING COURSE

Details

To interpret your data and draw insights, you need to be able to visualise it. Python, one of the most popular and powerful coding languages around, has impressive libraries and resources for displaying your data. You'll be able to take your data and use it to tell insightful stories with compelling visualisations to convince stakeholders and build trust.

In this course you will learn to:

  • Create data visualisations
  • Use various graph types
  • Apply skills to real world scenarios
  • Improve data accessibility and understandability
  • Create robust summaries

Delivery Methods

Leading Training is focusing on providing virtual training courses for the foreseeable future and will only consider in-person and classroom training on request, with a required minimum group size of six delegates. We remain committed to offering training that is fast, focused and effective.

Delivery Method Duration Price (excl. VAT)
Classroom 1 Days ZAR 5,500.00 Get a Quote
Live Virtual Training 1 Days ZAR 4,500.00 Get a Quote

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Audience

  • Data scientists
  • Programmers
  • Business analysts 
  • Engineers
  • Scientists

Pre-Requisites

Leading Training's Python Course or equivalent knowledge

 

Course Outline / Curriculum

Visualising Data

  • Instantiating defaults 
  • Changing colors and line widths 
  • Setting limits 
  • Setting ticks 
  • Setting tick labels 
  • Moving spines 
  • Adding a legend 
  • Annotate some points 
  • Putting it all together 
  • Figures, Subplots, Axes and Ticks 

Graph Types 

  • Scatter Plots 
  • Bar Plots 
  • Contour Plots 
  • Imshow 
  • Pie Charts 
  • Quiver Plots 
  • Multi Plots 
  • Polar Axis 
  • Histogram 
  • 3D Plots 

 Data visualization in practice 

  • Case study: new insights on poverty 
  • Hans Rosling’s quiz
  • Scatterplots
  • Faceting
  • Fixed scales for better comparisons
  • Time series plots
  • Labels instead of legends
  • Data transformations
  •  Log transformation
  • Which base?
  • Transform the values or the scale?
  • Visualizing multimodal distributions
  •  Comparing multiple distributions with boxplots and ridge plots
  •  Boxplots
  •  Ridge plots
  • Example: 1970 versus 2010 income distributions
  •  Accessing computed variables
  • Weighted densities
  • The ecological fallacy and importance of showing the data
  •  Logistic

Data visualization principles 

  •  Encoding data using visual cues
  •  Know when to include 
  •  Do not distort quantities
  •  Order categories by a meaningful value
  •  Show the data
  •  Ease comparisons
  • Use common axes
  • Align plots vertically to see horizontal changes and horizontally to see
  • vertical changes
  • Consider transformations
  •  Visual cues to be compared should be adjacent
  • Use color
  •  Think of the color blind
  •  Plots for two variables
  • Slope charts
  • Bland-Altman plot
  •  Encoding a third variable
  • Avoid pseudo-three-dimensional plots
  • Avoid too many significant digits
  • Know your audience
  • Exercises
  • Case study: vaccines and infectious diseases
  • Exercises

Robust summaries 

  •  Outliers
  •  Median
  •  The inter quartile range (IQR)
  •  Tukey’s definition of an outlier
  •  Median absolute deviation
  •  Exercises
  •  Case study: self-reported student heights

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Should you need this course urgently, the following options are available:

  1. Pay for 6 delegates (whether you have them or not) and we will schedule the course as soon as possible.
  2. If you have fewer delegates and cannot pay for 6, we can negotiate a shortened course where some of the time will be spent in blended learning - watching videos and doing tutorials and exercises with some contact time with the trainer. We would want to discuss what your core needs are so that we cover those aspects. You need to have paid for 3 delegates at least.
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