In this article, we’ll explore Kepler.gl, an open-source solution for geospatial data visualization and exploration. Kepler was developed by Uber to make it easier for users of all levels to design meaningful maps that also look good. The tool can handle large amounts of data and has a friendly, intuitive interface that allows users to build effective maps in an instant.

Available for all to use since 2018, it’s about time we get a closer look at how the tool fits into the data visualization landscape. …

This visualization is composed of line charts stacked vertically with slightly overlapping lines that share the same x-axis.

Those overlaps reduce the whitespace, many times at the cost of precision, and create a compact chart that’s relatively uncommon and great for catching the viewer's attention.

The names Ridge plot or Ridgeline plot is quite fitting; The charts do look like mountains. And they are also known as Joy Plots — Mainly because of the band Joy Division which used this visualization in one of its album covers.

With many similarities to pie charts, this creative visualization sets itself apart from its infamous cousin. The open center makes the slices look like bars and change the focus of the comparison from areas and angles to the length.

In this article, we’ll check two ways of plotting donut charts with Matplolib. A simple approach with Pie charts and the parameter wedgeprops, and a more complex method with polar axis and horizontal bar charts.

Pies

There’s no method for drawing a donut chart in Matplotlib, but we can quickly transform a Pie chart with wedgeprops.

Let’s start with a simple pie.

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Allowing the user to hover the mouse or click a part of our visualization to get more context is excellent. And tooltips are a perfect way to save space in our chart.

For example, for most scatter plots labelling every point can get tricky. You can color-code them and use a legend, but even that can get messy when there’s too much data.

This visualization is the result of the sweet combination of elevation maps and ridge plots.

It uses multiple horizontal lines to represent the elevation of the terrain, like tracing the peak of various latitudes, one above the other.

Few visualizations are so intuitive and insightful as calendar heatmaps are at presenting time series data. It could be because they combine two very familiar visualizations, color coding and calendars.

You probably know someone who has a planner or a calendar full of notes; some may use brighter colors to mark tasks requiring more attention, or maybe they color-code everything by category.

The concept of calendar heatmaps is very similar. We encode a variable with color and plot them in a calendar format to understand its relationship with time.

This tutorial will explore a convenient package called Calplot to draw…

Streamlit is an easy-to-use framework, perfect for building web apps without struggling with layout, event handlers, or document trees.

Its friendly methods make it a great tool to explore datasets, demonstrate machine learning models, computer vision, natural language processing, data visualizations, and many other data-centric projects.

In this article, we’ll build a simple app to explore and transform datasets with Streamlit.

Getting Started

After installing it, we’ll create a file named app.py and start with something simple.

#/app.py
import streamlit as st #pip install streamlitst.title('Explore a dataset')

In our environment terminal, we can go to the directory we saved our script…

Commonly referred to as a Mosaic plot, Spine plot, or just Mekko. This chart is often used, among other applications, as market maps to visualize industries segmented by types of customers, regions, and many other variables.

In essence, they are just a stacked bar chart where the bar widths are used to display another variable, usually the whole group’s proportion to the total.