rl3012 / ggplot-tutorial

ggplot for python

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Making basic, good-looking plots in Python is tough. Matplotlib gives you great control, but at the expense of being very detailed. The rise of pandas has made Python the go-to language for data wrangling and munging but many people are still reluctant to leave R because of its outstanding data viz packages. ggplot is a port of the popular R package ggplot2. It provides a high level grammar that allow users to quickly and easily make good looking plots. So say good-bye to matplotlib, and hello to ggplot as your everyday Python plotting library!

The Talk

Data

• https://github.com/slnovak/mlb_terminal
• baseball-pitches-clean.csv

Outline

Slides (20 mins)

http://www.slideshare.net/Yhat/ggplot-for-python

IPython Notebook (40-50 mins) Safety not guaranteed

Runing the notebooks

$ ipython notebook notebooks/ --pylab inline

Final Thoughts

Where it's going

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