How to create visualizations in Python

One of the most important things you can do with Python (as far as data processing goes) is creating visualizations with your data. First off, make sure you have Python installed on your machine, if not please read this guide that I made, next up make sure you have “pip” installed on your machine, if not please read this guide that I also made. Awesome, we’re ready to start!

Data Setup

At this point let’s go ahead and install the packages that we need. Let’s go ahead and install this package with one of the following commands:

#FOR PYTHON 2 USE THIS
pip install matplotlib
#FOR PYTHON 3 USE THIS
pip3 install matplotlib
#IF YOU'RE USING ANACONDA USE THIS
conda install matplotlib

Awesome, now that we have this package installed, be sure to have the pandas package installed as well, install this package by using the following command:

#FOR PYTHON 2 USE THIS
pip install pandas
#FOR PYTHON 3 USE THIS
pip3 install pandas
#IF YOU'RE USING ANACONDA USE THIS
conda install pandas