Draw stunning charts with Python

We are all probably spending time doing small manual tasks that don't add much value. It may be scanning through information sources in search of the small bits of relevant information, working with spreadsheets to generate the same graph over and over, or searching files one by one until find the data we're looking for. Some—probably most—of those tasks are automatable. We can use computers to do these kinds of menial tasks and focus our own efforts instead on what humans are good for—high-level analysis and decision making based on the result.

Thanks to the expressiveness and ease of use of Python, it's surprisingly simple to start making small programs to perform these actions and combine them into more integrated systems.

In Chapter 7 of the Python Automation Cookbook, Jaime Buelta shows you how you can draw charts from data sets with Python. You'll see how to contsruct bar charts, pie charts, scatter plots, and more. You'll also see how you can add visualizations to maps, and how to add legends and annotations.

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