Chapter 3. Getting to Grips with Visualization
Sometimes, we don't know how valuable data is until we look at it. In this chapter, we will look into a JavaScript-based web visualization framework called D3 (Data-Driven Documents) to create visualizations that make complex information easier to understand. We will cover the following topics:
- What is visualization?
- The visualization lifecycle
- Visualizing different types of data
- Data from social networks
- An overview of visualization analytics
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), as mentioned in Chapter 2, Preprocessing Data, is a critical part of the data analysis process because it helps us to detect mistakes, determinate relationships, and tendencies, identify outliers, trends, and patterns, or check ...
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