Data Visualization with Python

In [ ]: from google.colab import drive

drive.mount('/content/drive')

In [ ]: # Libraries to help with reading and manipulating data

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
​
# Libraries to help with data visualization
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
​
# Command to tell Python to actually display the graphs
%matplotlib inline

In [ ]: df = pd.read_csv('Automobile (1).csv')

# df = pd.read_csv('/location on your computer/Automobile (1).csv')

In [ ]: df.head()
Out[4]: symboling normalized_losses make fuel_type aspiration number_of_doors body_style dri

alfa-
0 3 168 gas std two convertible
romero

alfa-
1 3 168 gas std two convertible
romero

alfa-
2 1 168 gas std two hatchback
romero

3 2 164 audi gas std four sedan

4 2 164 audi gas std four sedan

5 rows × 26 columns

In [ ]: df.shape
Out[5]: (201, 26)

The data has 201 rows and 26 columns.

In [ ]: df.info()

<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 201 entries, 0 to 200
Data columns (total 26 columns):
# Column Non-Null Count Dtype
--- ------ -------------- -----
0 symboling 201 non-null int64
1 normalized_losses 201 non-null int64
2 make 201 non-null object
3 fuel_type 201 non-null object
4 aspiration 201 non-null object
5 number_of_doors 201 non-null object
6 body_style 201 non-null object
7 drive_wheels 201 non-null object
8 engine_location 201 non-null object
9 wheel_base 201 non-null float64
10 length 201 non-null float64
11 width 201 non-null float64
12 height 201 non-null float64
13 curb_weight 201 non-null int64
14 engine_type 201 non-null object
15 number_of_cylinders 201 non-null object
16 engine_size 201 non-null int64
17 fuel_system 201 non-null object
18 bore 201 non-null float64
19 stroke 201 non-null float64
20 compression_ratio 201 non-null float64
21 horsepower 201 non-null int64
22 peak_rpm 201 non-null int64
23 city_mpg 201 non-null int64
24 highway_mpg 201 non-null int64
25 price 201 non-null int64
dtypes: float64(7), int64(9), object(10)
memory usage: 41.0+ KB

There are attributes of different types (int, float, object) in the data.
In [ ]: df.describe(include='all').T

Out[7]: count unique top freq mean std min 25%

symboling 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 0.840796 1.254802 -2.0 0.0

normalized_losses 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 125.189055 33.572966 65.0 101.0 1

make 201 22 toyota 32 NaN NaN NaN NaN

fuel_type 201 2 gas 181 NaN NaN NaN NaN

aspiration 201 2 std 165 NaN NaN NaN NaN

number_of_doors 201 2 four 114 NaN NaN NaN NaN

body_style 201 5 sedan 94 NaN NaN NaN NaN

drive_wheels 201 3 fwd 118 NaN NaN NaN NaN

engine_location 201 2 front 198 NaN NaN NaN NaN

wheel_base 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 98.797015 6.066366 86.6 94.5

length 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 174.200995 12.322175 141.1 166.8 1

width 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 65.889055 2.101471 60.3 64.1

height 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 53.766667 2.447822 47.8 52.0

curb_weight 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 2555.666667 517.296727 1488.0 2169.0 24

engine_type 201 6 ohc 145 NaN NaN NaN NaN

number_of_cylinders 201 7 four 157 NaN NaN NaN NaN

engine_size 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 126.875622 41.546834 61.0 98.0 1

fuel_system 201 8 mpfi 92 NaN NaN NaN NaN

bore 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 3.329701 0.268166 2.54 3.15

stroke 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 3.261741 0.317875 2.07 3.11

compression_ratio 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 10.164279 4.004965 7.0 8.6

horsepower 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 103.263682 37.389372 48.0 70.0

peak_rpm 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 5121.393035 479.624905 4150.0 4800.0 52

city_mpg 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 25.179104 6.42322 13.0 19.0

highway_mpg 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 30.686567 6.81515 16.0 25.0

price 201.0 NaN NaN NaN 13207.129353 7947.066342 5118.0 7775.0 102

The car price ranges from 5118 to 45400 units.

The car weight ranges from 1488 to 4066 units.
The most common car make in the data is of Toyota.

Histogram
A histogram is a univariate plot which helps us understand the distribution of a continuous
numerical variable.
 It breaks the range of the continuous variables into a intervals of equal length and then
counts the number of observations in each interval.
We will use the histplot() function of seaborn to create histograms.

In [ ]: sns.histplot(data=df, x='price')

Out[8]: <AxesSubplot:xlabel='price', ylabel='Count'>

Let's see how we can customize a histogram.

In [ ]: plt.title('Histogram:Price')
plt.xlim(3000,50000)
plt.ylim(0,70)
plt.xlabel('Price of cars')
plt.ylabel('Frequency')
sns.histplot(data=df, x='price',color='orange');

We can specify the number of intervals (or groups or bins) to create by setting the bins
parameter.
In [ ]: sns.histplot(data=df, x='price', bins=5)

Out[10]: <AxesSubplot:xlabel='price', ylabel='Count'>

In [ ]: sns.histplot(data=df, x='price', bins=20)

Out[11]: <AxesSubplot:xlabel='price', ylabel='Count'>

If we want to specify the width of the intervals (or groups or bins), we can use binwidth
parameter.
In [ ]: sns.histplot(data=df, x='price', binwidth=20)

Out[12]: <AxesSubplot:xlabel='price', ylabel='Count'>

In [ ]: sns.histplot(data=df, x='price', binwidth=200)

Out[13]: <AxesSubplot:xlabel='price', ylabel='Count'>

How to find the optimal number of bins: Rule of thumb

𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑡ℎ = (2 ∗ 3𝐼𝑄𝑅)
We calculate the bin-width first, using the following formula:

√⎯𝑛
where n = number of rows the dataset

𝑅𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒
Then, we obtain bins using the calculated bin-width.

𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑠 = 𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑤𝑖𝑑𝑡ℎ
In addition to the bars, we can also add a density estimate by setting the kde parameter
to True.
 Kernel Density Estimation, or KDE, visualizes the distribution of data over a continuous
interval.
The conventional scale for KDE is: Total frequency of each bin × Probability

In [ ]: sns.histplot(data=df, x='price', kde=True);

In [ ]: sns.histplot(data=df, x='price', bins=700, kde=True);

Clearly, if we increase the number of bins, it reduces the frequency count in each group (bin).
Since the scale of KDE depends on the total frequency of each bin (group), the above code
gives us a flattened KDE plot.

Let's check out the histograms for a few more attributes in the data.
In [ ]: sns.histplot(data=df, x='curb_weight', kde=True);

A histogram is said to be symmetric if the left-hand and right-hand sides resemble mirror
images of each other when the histogram is cut down the middle.

In [ ]: sns.histplot(data=df, x='horsepower', kde=True);

The tallest clusters of bars, i.e., peaks, in a histogram represent the modes of the data.
A histogram skewed to the right has a large number of occurrences on the left side of the
plot and a few on the right side of the plot.
Similarly, a histogram skewed to the left has a large number of occurrences on the right
side of the plot and few on the left side of the plot.

Histograms are intuitive but it is hardly a good choice when we want to compare the
distributions of several groups. For example,
In [ ]: sns.histplot(data=df, x='price', hue='body_style', kde=True);

It might be better to use subplots!

In [ ]: g = sns.FacetGrid(df, col="body_style")

g.map(sns.histplot, "price");

In such cases, we can use boxplots. Boxplots, or box-and-whiskers plots, are an excellent way
to visualize differences among groups.

Boxplot
A boxplot, or a box-and-whisker plot, shows the distribution of numerical data and
skewness through displaying the data quartiles
It is also called a five-number summary plot, where the five-number summary includes
the minimum value, first quartile, median, third quartile, and the maximum value.
The boxplot() function of seaborn can be used to create a boxplot.
In [ ]: from IPython.display import Image
Image('/content/drive/MyDrive/Python Course/boxplot.png')
#Image('/location on your computer/boxplot.png')
Out[20]:

In [ ]: # creating a boxplot with seaborn

sns.boxplot(data=df, x='curb_weight');

Let's see how we can customize a boxplot.

In [ ]: plt.title('Boxplot:Horsepower')
plt.xlim(30,300)
plt.xlabel('Horsepower')
sns.axes_style('whitegrid')
sns.boxplot(data=df, x='horsepower',color='green');

In a boxplot, when the median is closer to the left of the box and the whisker is shorter on
the left end of the box, we say that the distribution is positively skewed (skewed right).
Similarly, when the median is closer to the right of the box and the whisker is shorter on the
right end of the box, we say that the distribution is negatively skewed (skewed left).

In [ ]: from IPython.display import Image

Image('/content/drive/MyDrive/skew_box.png')
#Image('/location on your computer/skew_box.png')
Out[23]:

For example,
In [ ]: sns.boxplot(data=df, x='price');

From the above plot, we can see that the distribution of price is positively skewed.

Let's see how we can compare groups with boxplots.

In [ ]: sns.boxplot(data=df, x='body_style', y='price') ;

Though boxplot visually summarizes variation in large datasets, it is unable to show

multimodality and clusters.
In [ ]: sns.boxplot(data=df, x='bore');

From the above boxplot we can not tell if the data is bimodal or not, but it is clearly visible in
the following histogram.

In [ ]: sns.histplot(data=df, x='bore',kde = True);

Bar Graph
A bar graph is generally used to show the counts of observations in each bin (or level or
group) of categorical variable using bars.
We can use the countplot() function of seaborn to plot a bar graph.
In [ ]: sns.countplot(data=df, x='body_style');

We can also make the plot more granular by specifying the hue parameter to display
counts for subgroups.

In [3]: sns.countplot(data=df, x='make' )

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NameError Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[3], line 1
----> 1 sns.countplot(data=df, x='make' )

NameError: name 'sns' is not defined

Let's check out the bar graphs for a few more attributes in the data.

In [ ]: sns.countplot(data=df, x='make');

This plot looks a little messy and congested.

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In [ ]: plt.figure(figsize=(20,7))
sns.countplot(data=df, x='make');

Some of the tick marks on the x-axis are overlapping with each other.
Let's rotate the tick marks to make it look better.
In [ ]: plt.figure(figsize=(20,7))
sns.countplot(data=df, x='make')
plt.xticks(rotation=90)
Out[32]: (array([ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21]),
[Text(0, 0, 'alfa-romero'),
Text(1, 0, 'audi'),
Text(2, 0, 'bmw'),
Text(3, 0, 'chevrolet'),
Text(4, 0, 'dodge'),
Text(5, 0, 'honda'),
Text(6, 0, 'isuzu'),
Text(7, 0, 'jaguar'),
Text(8, 0, 'mazda'),
Text(9, 0, 'mercedes-benz'),
Text(10, 0, 'mercury'),
Text(11, 0, 'mitsubishi'),
Text(12, 0, 'nissan'),
Text(13, 0, 'peugot'),
Text(14, 0, 'plymouth'),
Text(15, 0, 'porsche'),
Text(16, 0, 'renault'),
Text(17, 0, 'saab'),
Text(18, 0, 'subaru'),
Text(19, 0, 'toyota'),
Text(20, 0, 'volkswagen'),
Text(21, 0, 'volvo')])

A lot of plot-specific text has shown up in the output.

Let's see how we can get rid of those.
In [ ]: plt.figure(figsize=(20,7))
sns.countplot(data=df, x='make')
plt.xticks(rotation=90)
plt.show() # this will ensure that the plot is displayed without the text

Here are some common ways to customize a barplot.

In [ ]: plt.figure(figsize=(10,7))
plt.title('Barplot:Engine-type')
plt.ylim(0,180)
sns.countplot(data=df, x='engine_type',hue='fuel_type')
plt.xlabel('Engine-type');
 Lineplot
Suppose, your dataset has multiple y values for each x value. A lineplot is a great way to
visualize this. This type of data often shows up when we have data that evolves over time, for
example, when we have monthly data over several years. If we want to compare the individual
months, then a line plot is a great option. This is sometimes called seasonality analysis.

In [ ]: from IPython.display import Image

Image('/content/drive/MyDrive/Python Course/Line_plot.png')
#Image('/location on your computer/Line_plot.png')
Out[35]:

A line plot uses straight lines to connect individual data points to display a trend or pattern
in the data.
For example, seasonal effects and large changes over time.
The lineplot() function of seaborn, by default, aggregates over multiple y values at each
value of x and uses an estimate of the central tendency for the plot.
lineplot() assumes that you are most often trying to draw y as a function of x. So, by default,
it sorts the data by the x values before plotting.
In [ ]: # loading one of the example datasets available in seaborn
flights = sns.load_dataset("flights")
​
# creating a line plot
sns.lineplot(data = flights , x = 'month' , y = 'passengers');

The light blue shaded area is actually the 'confidence interval' of the y-value estimates for
each x-axis value.
The confidence interval is a range of values around that estimate that are believed to
contain the true value of that estimate with a certain probability.

*We can switch off the confidence intervals by setting the ci parameter to 'False'.*

In [ ]: sns.lineplot(data = flights , x = 'month' , y = 'passengers', ci = False);

We can also check the relationship between two variables for different categories by
specifying the hue parameter.
In [ ]: sns.lineplot(data=flights,x = 'month' , y = 'passengers', ci = False ,hue='year

We can change the style of the lines by adding 'style' parameter to the function.

In [ ]: # loading one of the example datasets available in seaborn

fmri = sns.load_dataset("fmri")
​
# creating the line plot
sns.lineplot(data = fmri, x="timepoint", y="signal", hue="region", style="regio

We can also add markers at each observation to identify groups in a better way.
In [ ]: sns.lineplot(data = fmri, x="timepoint", y="signal", hue="region", style="regio

Let's customize the lineplot for a better visualization.

In [ ]: plt.figure(figsize = (15,7))

sns.lineplot(data = flights , x = 'month' , y = 'passengers', hue = 'year')
plt.ylabel('Number of Passengers')
plt.legend(bbox_to_anchor=[1, 1]); #another way to change the legend's location

Note that, unlike barplots and histograms, line plots may not include a zero baseline.
We create a line chart is to emphasize changes in value, rather than the magnitude of the
values themselves, and hence, a zero line is not meaningful.

Scatterplot
Sometimes we want to know if two variables mean something when put together, whether a
small change in one variable affects the other variable. In such cases, plotting a scatterplot, or
scatter-diagram, with our data points can help us to check whether there is a potential
 relationship between them

A scatterplot is the simplest mode of a diagrammatic representation of two variables.

It takes two perpendicular axes of coordinates, one for x and one for y.
Unlike the lineplot, it directly plots each pair of values as a point on the 2D space.
The scatterplot() function of seaborn can be used to make a scatterplot.

In [ ]: sns.scatterplot(data=df, x='engine_size', y='horsepower');

We can also check the relationship between two variables for different categories by
specifying the hue parameter.

In [ ]: sns.scatterplot(data=df, x='engine_size', y='horsepower', hue='fuel_type');

We can assign the same variable as hue to another parameter style which will vary the
markers and create a more readable plot.
In [ ]: sns.scatterplot(data=df, x='engine_size', y='horsepower', hue='fuel_type', styl

Correlation

Correlation means association. More precisely, it expresses the extent to which two variables
change together at a constant rate.

In a scatter plot when the y variable tends to increase as the x variable increases, we say
there is a positive correlation between the variables.
Again, when the y variable tends to decrease as the x variable increases, we say there is a
negative correlation between the variables.
If the points on the scatter plot seem to be scattered randomly, we say that there is no
correlation between the variables.

Let's check out the relationship between a few more variables using scatter plots.

In [ ]: sns.scatterplot(data=df, x='curb_weight', y='engine_size');

From the above plot, we can say that these variables are positively correlated.
In [ ]: sns.scatterplot(data=df, x='bore', y='stroke');

From the above plot, it is clear that the variables have no correlation.

Note:

1. A strong correlation will have data points close together, while a weak correlation will have
data points that are further apart.
2. We can not measure the relationship quantitatively using a scatter plot. It just gives an
expression for the relative change between the variables.

We can see from the scatterplot of engine_size vs horsepower that there is a positive
correlation between the two variables. Now, we want to measure the relationship between these
two variables quantitatively and try to predict the 'horsepower' based on 'engine size'. This can
be easily done by fitting a linear model. Here comes the seaborn lmplot() function to help us
with that.

lmplot
The lmplot() function plots a scatterplot and also fit a linear model with a confidence interval
for the fitted model.
In [ ]: sns.lmplot(data=df, x='curb_weight', y='horsepower');

We can also check the relationship between two variables for different categories by
specifying the hue parameter.

In [ ]: sns.lmplot(data=df, x='curb_weight', y='horsepower', hue='fuel_type',ci=False)

We can also disable the 95% confidence interval and just keep the regression model fit
by setting the ci parameter to False.
In [ ]: sns.lmplot(data=df, x='curb_weight', y='horsepower', ci=False);

We can also plot the levels of the third variable across different plots.

In [ ]: sns.lmplot(data=df, x='curb_weight', y='horsepower', col='fuel_type');

*Let's check out the relationship between a few more variables using lmplot().*
In [ ]: sns.lmplot(data=df, x='curb_weight', y='engine_size', col='number_of_doors', ci

Out[51]: <seaborn.axisgrid.FacetGrid at 0x1b79049f280>

In [ ]: sns.lmplot(data=df, x='horsepower', y='price', ci=False);

We have seen that histograms help us understand the distribution of individual variables and
scatterplots help us identify the relationship between two variables. While we can view and
analyze these plots separately, having them together in a single visualization would allow us to
capture a lot more information in a concise manner. That's where a jointplot comes to our aid.

Joint plot
A jointplot helps to quickly visualize the bivariate and univariate profiles on the same plot.
 It comprises three plots - one displays the relationship between two variables while the
other two show the individual distribution of each variable in the margins.
The jointplot() function of seaborn can be used to create a jointplot.

In [ ]: sns.jointplot(data=df, x='engine_size', y='horsepower');

By default, jointplot() creates a scatter plot to show the relationship between two variables
and individual histograms are created in x and y axis margins for each of the variables.

One of the drawbacks of scatterplots is the overlapping of points. When we have large
volumes of data to plot, the data points in the plot overlap with each other, making it difficult to
interpret the data.

In such cases, we can divide the entire plot into bins using different shapes (square, triangle,
hexagon, etc.) and then try to see the number of data points falling within each of the bins.

seaborn's jointplot() provides a 'hex' kind to plot the data in above-mentioned way.

*We can create a hexbin plot by setting kind="hex".*

It actually splits the plotting window into several hexagons and the colour of each hexagon
denotes the number of data points in it.
In [ ]: sns.jointplot(data=df, x='engine_size', y='horsepower', kind="hex");
plt.colorbar(); # adds a separate axis indicating the color scale in this plot

**We can also create a kde plot by setting kind="kde".**.

A KDE jointplot also uses color to determine where observations are the most dense.
It creates a continuous plot using probabilities of new data should be introduced.
In [ ]: sns.jointplot(data=df, x='engine_size', y='horsepower', kind="kde", fill=True)

Let's check out the joint plots for a few more attributes in the data.

By using kind = "reg", we can use the joint point to find the best line or curve that fits the
plot.
In [ ]: sns.jointplot(data=df, x='price', y='city_mpg', kind="reg");

Violin Plot
A violin plot allows us to visualize the distribution of a numeric variable for several groups.
It is similar to boxplot but with a rotated plot on each side, giving more information about
the density estimate on the y-axis.
The violinplot() function of seaborn can be used to make a violin plot.

In [ ]: sns.violinplot(data=df, x='horsepower');

 The white dot in the plot represents the median.
The thick gray bar in the center represents the interquartile range.
The wider section of the violin plot represents a higher probability and the skinnier sections
represent a lower probability for the given value.

We can get a vertical plot by setting orient parameter to 'v' and assigning a numeric
variable to the y-axis.

In [ ]: sns.violinplot(data=df, x='fuel_type', y='horsepower', orient='v');

Let's check out the violinplots for a few more attributes in the data.

In [ ]: sns.violinplot(data=df, x='engine_size', y='fuel_type');

We can use the palette parameter to change the colour palette.

seaborn has six variations of it - deep, muted, pastel, bright, dark, colorblind.
In [ ]: sns.violinplot(data=df, x='body_style', y='engine_size', palette="bright");

In [ ]: sns.violinplot(data=df, x='engine_location', y='price', palette="colorblind");

Histograms and other distribution plots are typically preferred for larger data sets. When we
have a small dataset and we want to visualize the frequency distribution, a strip plot can be
used.

Strip Plot
A strip plot is basically a scatter plot that differentiates different categories.
The stripplot() function of seaborn can be used to make a strip plot.
In [ ]: sns.stripplot(data=df, x='engine_size');

Strip plots are considered a good alternative to a box plot or a violin plot for comparing data
distributions when we have fewer data points.

In [ ]: plt.figure(figsize=(15,7))
sns.stripplot(data=df, x='body_style', y='engine_size');

Strip plots are more useful when we add random noise called "jitter" to avoid
overlapping of data points with same values.
In [ ]: plt.figure(figsize=(20,7))
sns.stripplot(data=df, x='body_style', y='engine_size', jitter=True);

We can set the hue parameter to display observations for subgroups.

In [ ]: plt.figure(figsize=(10,7))
sns.stripplot(data=df, x='fuel_type', y='engine_size', hue="number_of_doors", j

Let's check out the strip plots for a few more attributes in the data.
In [ ]: plt.figure(figsize=(10,7))
sns.stripplot(data=df, x='number_of_doors', y='price',jitter=True);

In [ ]: plt.figure(figsize=(10,7))
sns.stripplot(data=df, x='number_of_doors', y='horsepower', jitter=True);
 In a strip plot, dots are randomly arranged in vertical direction, which means we can not use the
width to estimate distribution. This can be easily done by swarm plots.

Swarm Plot
A swarm plot is very similar to the strip plot, but it avoids the overlapping of points.
The swarmplot( ) function of seaborn can be used to create such a graph for categorical
values.

In [ ]: sns.swarmplot(data=df, x='number_of_doors', y='price');

In a swarm plot, dots are arranged in vertical columns.

So, we can estimate the distribution of our data by looking at the width of the plot.

We can add the hue parameter to swarmplot() and separate the categories.

In [ ]: sns.swarmplot(data=df, x='fuel_type', y='price', hue='number_of_doors');

 We can split the two products setting the dodge argument to True.

In [ ]: sns.swarmplot(data=df, x='fuel_type', y='price', hue='number_of_doors', dodge=T

Catplot
The catplot() function provides a new framework giving access to several types of plots that
show relationship between numerical variable and one or more categorical variables.
Catplots supports 8 different plots including stripplot(), swarmplot(), boxplot() and more,
with the default kind being 'strip'.

In [ ]: sns.catplot(data=df, x='fuel_type', y='horsepower');

We can set kind='point' to create a pointplot using the catplot() function.

 A pointplot helps us to see how the main relationship is changing as a function of the
second variable.

In [ ]: sns.catplot(data=df, x='body_style', y='horsepower', hue='fuel_type', kind='poi

Catplot is very useful to draw categorical plots onto a FacetGrid by assigning a third
variable to the col parameter.

In [ ]: sns.catplot(data=df, x="fuel_type", y="horsepower", hue="number_of_doors", col=

Let's check out the catplot() function for a few more attributes in the data.
In [ ]: sns.catplot(data=df, x="fuel_type", y="engine_size", hue="body_style", col="num

In [ ]: sns.catplot(data=df, x="number_of_doors", y="price", hue="body_style", col="fue

Pair Plot
A pairplot shows the relationship between two numeric variables for each pair of columns
in the dataset.
It creates a grid of axes such that each variable in data will be shared in the y-axis across a
single row and in the x-axis across a single column.
The pairplot() function of seaborn can be used to create such a plot.
In [ ]: sns.pairplot(data=df[['normalized_losses','wheel_base','curb_weight','engine_si

Out[76]: <seaborn.axisgrid.PairGrid at 0x1b79055cc40>

We can add the hue parameter in pairplot to create a semantic mapping.

It changes the default marginal plot to a layered kde plot.

Also, we can add vars parameter to assign a list of variables from the dataset for which
we want to create the pairplot.
In [ ]: sns.pairplot(data=df, vars=['wheel_base', 'curb_weight', 'engine_size', 'price

We can set corner=True to plot only the lower triangle of a pairplot.

In [ ]: sns.pairplot(data=df, vars=['wheel_base', 'curb_weight', 'engine_size', 'price

Heatmap
A heatmap is a graphical representation of data as a color-encoded matrix.
It is a great way of representing the correlation for each pair of columns in the data.
The heatmap() function of seaborn helps us to create such a plot.
In [ ]: sns.heatmap(data=df[['wheel_base','curb_weight','engine_size','price']].corr()

We can set the annot parameter to True for displaying the numeric value in each cell.

To remove the color bar, the cbar parameter can be set to False.

In [ ]: sns.heatmap(data=df[['wheel_base','curb_weight','engine_size','price']].corr()

We can apply a different colormap with the cmap parameter for better visual appeal.
In [ ]: sns.heatmap(data=df[['wheel_base','curb_weight','engine_size','price']].corr()

Plotly
Plotly is an open-source Python graphing library for building beautiful and interactive
visualizations.

In [ ]: # let's start by installing plotly

#!pip install plotly

In [ ]: # importing plotly

import plotly.express as px
 Histogram

In [ ]: his = px.histogram(df, x="price")

his.show()

Bar Plot

In [ ]: bar = px.bar(df, x='peak_rpm', y='horsepower')

bar.show()
...
 Scatter Plot

In [ ]: scat = px.scatter(df, x='price', y='engine_size')

scat.show()
 Boxplot with underlying data

In [ ]: fig = px.box(df, x="fuel_type", y="horsepower", points="all")

fig.show()
 3D Scatter Plot

In [ ]: fig_3d = px.scatter_3d(df, x='fuel_type', y='horsepower', z='price', color='hor

fig_3d.show()

In [ ]: # to save the output to an HTML file

fig_3d.write_html("scatter_3d.html")

Customizing plots
In this section we will see how we can customize plots by using different matplotlib and
seaborn functions.

To change the axis scales of a plot:

 plt.xlim(left, right) # here left and right indicates the min an
d the max limits of x-axis respectively
plt.ylim(bottom, top) # here bottom and top indicates the min an

To change the plot title and axis labels:

plt.title()
plt.xlabel() # for x_axis labels
plt.ylabel() # for y_axis labels

To show the grid lines of a plot:

sns.set(style="darkgrid")
sns.set(style="whitegrid")
sns.set(style="white")

To hide the axes of a plot:

plt.axis('off') # it will hide both the x-axis and y-axis

To customize labels of the plot legend:

ax.legend([]) # takes list of the legend values

To change the position of the plot legend:

plt.legend(loc=___)

The following values can be added to loc to change the location of the legend:

'upper left', 'upper right', 'lower left', 'lower right', 'center', 'best', etc.
(https://matplotlib.org/stable/api/_as_gen/matplotlib.pyplot.legend.html)