Hello everyone and welcome to the plotless and cufflinks lecture and this lecture we're going to learn
a bit of the background behind plotline cufflinks which allow us to create interactive visualizations
quietly is an interactive visualization library that's open source and cufflinks connects this library
with pandas.
And that way we're going to be able to create interactive visualizations directly off our data frame
.
However before we actually explore these libraries we're going to need to install them.
You'll need to use Pipp to install these libraries either at your command line or at your terminal and
you can write Pitman's style plot Lee and Pipp install cufflinks.
This should still work even if you're using the Anaconda's distribution.
These two libraries just aren't available on the Konda install at this time so go ahead and use pipin
style plotless and Pippin's cufflinks at your command line terminal in order to get these libraries
.
Now let's go ahead and get a quick tour of the official Web site before the next lecture we actually
show you how to use these libraries.
I'm going to go ahead and jump to platies official Web site now.
All right.
Here I am at the plotless Web site.
It set P L O T L Y and you can check out the Web site.
There's a lot of information on it in a quick note plotless is also a company but they make money by
hosting your visualizations and hosting your dashboards.
If you want to keep everything local or host it yourself the library that operates on all these features
is open source and free.
So don't worry you won't have to pay something to use politely and politely.
It's compatible with a variety of tools such as our Matlab excel and Javascript.
But we're going to focus on using it with Python.
If you go ahead and click on this python link you'll get a link to a getting started page with Python
.
It will show you how to get started in.
Interestingly they'll have a link to Pandas and that's what we're going to be focusing on using plotless
with pandas and in order to you we use plotless of pandas.
You need to install plotline as said here in the instructions you're also later on going to have to
install cufflinks.
Cufflinks.
Is the library that connects plot Lee with pandas.
And I'm going to go ahead and go to the web page for cufflinks.
And this is the get her page for cufflinks and cufflinks basically.
It's a productivity tool that allows you to quickly call plot's just as you would with pandas for instance
a data frame dot plot method that is set you'll actually create an interactive visualization using plot
Lee in a quick disclaimer.
I'm actually a contributor to this library myself and you can actually see my merged branch right here
at Jey imports here.
But anyways there's pretty nice tutorials here under cufflinks and we're going to go through some of
these topics and show you how to actually use cufflinks effectively in order to create really nice looking
interactive his lazy actions.
And here's just an example of one U.K. swap rates and you can see that this is a 3D surface and this
is done directly off of a data frame.
There's some release notes here and then there's some links that documentation up above over here.
All right.
Let's go ahead and just get started in the next lecture we're actually going to show you how to code
interactive visualizations using these libraries.
Thanks everyone and I'll see you at the next lecture