[Week 8] Pandas landing on Jupiter

After coming back from mid sem break it was time to get started on the next assignment, Open Data Project. We were introduced to the web application called jupyter which would be where we would create and develop our project. We also installed the pandas and matplotlib libraries which would be integral for data analysis and visualisation.

The main things we went through in lecture/studio was opening jupyter from terminal: ‘jupyter notebook’ and making sure we had all the libraries we needed installed. The main part was looking though Ben’s basic pandas jupyter file which went through how to use the notebook to load in our data, this was Ben’s example:

We also went through the main code for looking at our data, here is quick summary:

We then went on how to make it all a bit more #aesthetic. Things like changing the alpha value for transparency, setting values for x and y axis and for the title of the graph, changing the amount of bins and other cool things. It was pretty cool to see the capabilities and will be interesting to see how much further I can go when it comes to visualising my data.