Побудова графіків

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Питання

• Як побудувати графік за моїми даними?
• How can I save my plot for publishing?

Цілі

• Створення графіку часового ряду, який відповідає одному набору даних.
• Створення діаграми розсіювання, яка показує зв’язок між двома наборами даних.

matplotlib is the most widely used scientific plotting library in Python.

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• Commonly use a sub-library called matplotlib.pyplot.
• The Jupyter Notebook will render plots inline by default.

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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

• Simple plots are then (fairly) simple to create.

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time = [0, 1, 2, 3]
position = [0, 100, 200, 300]

plt.plot(time, position)
plt.xlabel('Time (hr)')
plt.ylabel('Position (km)')

Display All Open Figures

In our Jupyter Notebook example, running the cell should generate the figure directly below the code. The figure is also included in the Notebook document for future viewing. However, other Python environments like an interactive Python session started from a terminal or a Python script executed via the command line require an additional command to display the figure.

Instruct matplotlib to show a figure:

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plt.show()

This command can also be used within a Notebook - for instance, to display multiple figures if several are created by a single cell.

Побудова графіків безпосередньо з Pandas dataframes.

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• Для побудови графіків можна також використовувати фрейми даних Pandas.
• Before plotting, we convert the column headings from a string to integer data type, since they represent numerical values, using str.replace() to remove the gpdPercap_ prefix and then astype(int) to convert the series of string values (['1952', '1957', ..., '2007']) to a series of integers: [1925, 1957, ..., 2007].

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import pandas as pd

data = pd.read_csv('data/gapminder_gdp_oceania.csv', index_col='country')

# Extract year from last 4 characters of each column name
# The current column names are structured as 'gdpPercap_(year)', 
# so we want to keep the (year) part only for clarity when plotting GDP vs. years
# To do this we use replace(), which removes from the string the characters stated in the argument
# This method works on strings, so we use replace() from Pandas Series.str vectorized string functions

years = data.columns.str.replace('gdpPercap_', '')

# Convert year values to integers, saving results back to dataframe

data.columns = years.astype(int)

data.loc['Australia'].plot()

Виділіть та трансформуйте дані, а потім побудуйте графік.

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• By default, DataFrame.plot plots with the rows as the X axis.
• Ми можемо транспонувати дані, щоб побудувати кілька графіків разом.

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data.T.plot()
plt.ylabel('GDP per capita')

Доступні багато стилів графіків.

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• For example, do a bar plot using a fancier style.

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plt.style.use('ggplot')
data.T.plot(kind='bar')
plt.ylabel('GDP per capita')

Data can also be plotted by calling the matplotlib plot function directly.

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• Формат команди є таким: plt.plot(x, y)
• The color and format of markers can also be specified as an additional optional argument e.g., b- is a blue line, g-- is a green dashed line.

Get Australia data from dataframe

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years = data.columns
gdp_australia = data.loc['Australia']

plt.plot(years, gdp_australia, 'g--')

Can plot many sets of data together.

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# Select two countries' worth of data.
gdp_australia = data.loc['Australia']
gdp_nz = data.loc['New Zealand']

# Plot with differently-colored markers.
plt.plot(years, gdp_australia, 'b-', label='Australia')
plt.plot(years, gdp_nz, 'g-', label='New Zealand')

# Create legend.
plt.legend(loc='upper left')
plt.xlabel('Year')
plt.ylabel('GDP per capita ($)')

Додавання легенди

Often when plotting multiple datasets on the same figure it is desirable to have a legend describing the data.

Це можна зробити в matplotlib за два етапи:

• Вкажіть мітку для кожного набору даних у графіку:

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plt.plot(years, gdp_australia, label='Australia')
plt.plot(years, gdp_nz, label='New Zealand')

• Доручіть matplotlib створити легенду.

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plt.legend()

За замовчуванням matplotlib спробує розмістити легенду у відповідному місці. If you would rather specify a position this can be done with the loc= argument, e.g to place the legend in the upper left corner of the plot, specify loc='upper left'

• Побудуйте точкову діаграму співвідношення ВВП Австралії та Нової Зеландії
• Use either plt.scatter or DataFrame.plot.scatter

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plt.scatter(gdp_australia, gdp_nz)

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data.T.plot.scatter(x = 'Australia', y = 'New Zealand')

Мінімум та максимум

Fill in the blanks below to plot the minimum GDP per capita over time for all the countries in Europe. Modify it again to plot the maximum GDP per capita over time for Europe.

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data_europe = pd.read_csv('data/gapminder_gdp_europe.csv', index_col='country')
data_europe.____.plot(label='min')
data_europe.____
plt.legend(loc='best')
plt.xticks(rotation=90)

Рішення

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data_europe = pd.read_csv('data/gapminder_gdp_europe.csv', index_col='country')
data_europe.min().plot(label='min')
data_europe.max().plot(label='max')
plt.legend(loc='best')
plt.xticks(rotation=90)

Співвідношення

Модифікуйте приклад у примітках, щоб створити діаграму розсіювання, що показує співвідношення між мінімальним і максимальним ВВП на душу населення серед країн Азії за кожен рік у наборі даних. Який зв’язок ви бачите (якщо такий є)?

Рішення

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data_asia = pd.read_csv('data/gapminder_gdp_asia.csv', index_col='country')
data_asia.describe().T.plot(kind='scatter', x='min', y='max')

No particular correlations can be seen between the minimum and maximum GDP values year on year. It seems the fortunes of asian countries do not rise and fall together.

Співвідношення (continued)

You might note that the variability in the maximum is much higher than that of the minimum. Take a look at the maximum and the max indexes:

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data_asia = pd.read_csv('data/gapminder_gdp_asia.csv', index_col='country')
data_asia.max().plot()
print(data_asia.idxmax())
print(data_asia.idxmin())

Показати відповіді

Seems the variability in this value is due to a sharp drop after 1972. Some geopolitics at play perhaps? Given the dominance of oil producing countries, maybe the Brent crude index would make an interesting comparison? Whilst Myanmar consistently has the lowest GDP, the highest GDP nation has varied more notably.

More Correlations

This short program creates a plot showing the correlation between GDP and life expectancy for 2007, normalizing marker size by population:

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data_all = pd.read_csv('data/gapminder_all.csv', index_col='country')
data_all.plot(kind='scatter', x='gdpPercap_2007', y='lifeExp_2007',
              s=data_all['pop_2007']/1e6)

Using online help and other resources, explain what each argument to plot does.

Показати відповіді

A good place to look is the documentation for the plot function - help(data_all.plot).

kind - As seen already this determines the kind of plot to be drawn.

x and y - A column name or index that determines what data will be placed on the x and y axes of the plot

s - Details for this can be found in the documentation of plt.scatter. A single number or one value for each data point. Determines the size of the plotted points.

Saving your plot to a file

If you are satisfied with the plot you see you may want to save it to a file, perhaps to include it in a publication. There is a function in the matplotlib.pyplot module that accomplishes this: savefig. Calling this function, e.g. with

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plt.savefig('my_figure.png')

will save the current figure to the file my_figure.png. The file format will automatically be deduced from the file name extension (other formats are pdf, ps, eps and svg).

Note that functions in plt refer to a global figure variable and after a figure has been displayed to the screen (e.g. with plt.show) matplotlib will make this variable refer to a new empty figure. Therefore, make sure you call plt.savefig before the plot is displayed to the screen, otherwise you may find a file with an empty plot.

When using dataframes, data is often generated and plotted to screen in one line. In addition to using plt.savefig, we can save a reference to the current figure in a local variable (with plt.gcf) and call the savefig class method from that variable to save the figure to file.

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data.plot(kind='bar')
fig = plt.gcf() # get current figure
fig.savefig('my_figure.png')

Making your plots accessible

Whenever you are generating plots to go into a paper or a presentation, there are a few things you can do to make sure that everyone can understand your plots.

• Always make sure your text is large enough to read. Use the fontsize parameter in xlabel, ylabel, title, and legend, and tick_params with labelsize to increase the text size of the numbers on your axes.
• Similarly, you should make your graph elements easy to see. Use s to increase the size of your scatterplot markers and linewidth to increase the sizes of your plot lines.
• Using color (and nothing else) to distinguish between different plot elements will make your plots unreadable to anyone who is colorblind, or who happens to have a black-and-white office printer. For lines, the linestyle parameter lets you use different types of lines. For scatterplots, marker lets you change the shape of your points. If you’re unsure about your colors, you can use Coblis or Color Oracle to simulate what your plots would look like to those with colorblindness.

Ключові моменти

• matplotlib is the most widely used scientific plotting library in Python.
• Plot data directly from a Pandas dataframe.
• Select and transform data, then plot it.
• Many styles of plot are available: see the Python Graph Gallery for more options.
• Can plot many sets of data together.