Python Data Visualization Transcripts
Chapter: Welcome to the course
Lecture: Why visualize data?
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So why might you choose to visualize your data? This list from Dr. Alexander Lex at the University of Utah from his data science course
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provides a lot of good examples that hopefully will inspire you as you embark on your
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data visualization journey, I frequently use many of the data visualization techniques I'm going to
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cover to answer questions, communicate ideas to others, test or reject hypotheses that I might have, for certain types of data
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Visualization is almost the only way to answer and reveal complex patterns in the data when I'm trying to record or present information.
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Maybe in a different context, visualization can be really handy, and for certain types of computational analysis,
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visualization is almost the only way to interpret the data. Finally, the most common use for visualizing the data that I've seen is to tell
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a story and we'll walk through some of those key considerations for visualizing data to effectively tell that story.