2/4/25, 3:36 PM Data Visualization - Lab Answer sheet - Colab
keyboard_arrow_down Data Visualization - Lab
Introduction
This lab will give you some structured practice performing data visualization!
Objectives
You will be able to:
Use Matplotlib to create a bar graph
Use Matplotlib to create a scatter plot
Use Matplotlib to create a histogram
# Run this cell without changes
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
keyboard_arrow_down Exercise 1
Make a vertical bar graph using ax.bar() for the following set of data:
Jim's Video Library contains 40 crime, 30 science fiction, 10 drama, 50 comedy, 25 action and 5 documentary movies.
Set x-axis (genres) and y-axis (number of movies)
Plot and label the bar graph
Provide a suitable title
Label x and y-axis
Notes:
1. We are asking you to "hard-code" the numbers listed above into Python. There is no file or other data source to open.
2. x and height must be iterables of numbers, so x should just be 6 evenly-spaced numbers. To set the labels of "crime" etc. pass the
labels into the .bar() function using the tick_label argument.
The graph you create should look like this:
height = (50,40,30,35,10,5)
print(height)
(50, 40, 30, 35, 10, 5)
x = ('Crime', 'Sci/fi', 'Drama', 'Comedy', 'Action', 'Documentary')
print(x)
('Crime', 'Sci/fi', 'Drama', 'Comedy', 'Action', 'Documentary')
# Replace None with appropriate code
height = (50,40,30,35,10,5)
x = ('Crime', 'Sci/fi', 'Drama', 'Comedy', 'Action', 'Documentary')
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labels = ('Sample data')
# Create the plot
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(8, 6))
# Plot vertical bars of fixed width by passing x and height values to .bar() function
plt.bar(x, height, label='Sample Data') #plotting the bar graph
plt.xlabel('Genres') #labeling the x axis
plt.ylabel('Number_of_Movies') #labeling the y axis
# Give a title to the bar graph and label the axes
plt.title("Jim's Video Library") #assigning a title to the scatter plot
plt.show()
keyboard_arrow_down Exercise 2
The table shows the data collected by a Consumer Products Group on the relationship between the weight of a car and its average gas
mileage.
Car Type Weight miles per gallon
A 2750 29
B 3125 23
C 2100 33
D 4082 18
E 2690 20
F 3640 21
G 4380 14
H 2241 25
I 2895 31
J 3659 17
Use a scatter plot to show the relationship between mpg and weight of a car using .scatter()
Set appropriate labels for axes
Give a title to the plot
Create a legend
Looking the scatter plot, think about: how would you describe the relationship between these two attributes?
The graph you create should look like this:
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x = weight
print(x)
[2750, 3125, 2100, 4082, 2690, 3640, 4380, 2241, 2895, 3659]
y =mpg
print(y)
[29, 23, 33, 28, 20, 21, 14, 25, 31, 17]
# Replace None with appropriate code
weight = [2750, 3125, 2100, 4082, 2690, 3640, 4380, 2241, 2895, 3659]
mpg = [29, 23, 33, 28, 20, 21, 14, 25, 31, 17]
# Create the plot
x = weight #indicates what x represents
y =mpg #indicates what y represents
# Plot with scatter()
plt.scatter(x, y) #plotting the scatter plot
# Set x and y axes labels, legend, and title
plt.xlabel('Car Weight') #labeling the x axis
plt.ylabel('Miles per Gallon') #labeling the y axis
plt.title('Relationship between the Weight of a car & its Average gas mileage')#assigning a title to the scatter plot
plt.legend('weight vs mileage', loc= 2)
plt.show() #display the scatter plot
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Joe is the branch manager at a bank. Recently, Joe has been receiving customer feedback saying that the waiting times for clients to be
served by customer service representatives are too long. Joe decides to observe and write down the time spent waiting by each customer.
Here are his findings from observing and writing down the wait times (in seconds), spent by 20 customers:
43.1, 35.6, 37.5, 36.5, 45.3, 43.4, 40.3, 50.2, 47.3, 31.2, 42.2, 45.5, 30.3, 31.4, 35.6, 45.2, 54.1, 45.6, 36.5, 43.1
Build a histogram of these values using the hist() function. Use bins=5 to represent the 20 data points
Plot, label and give a title as above.
The graph you create should look like this:
# Replace None with appropriate code
x = [43.1, 35.6, 37.5, 36.5, 45.3, 43.4,
40.3, 50.2, 47.3, 31.2, 42.2, 45.5,
30.3, 31.4, 35.6, 45.2, 54.1, 45.6,
36.5, 43.1]
# Create the plot
None
# Plot the histogram with hist() function
plt.hist(x, bins=5)
# Label axes and set title
plt.ylabel('Number of Customers') #labeling the y axis
plt.xlabel('Waiting Time') #labeling the y axis
plt.legend('WT')
plt.title('Waiting time for clients to be served'); #assigning a title to the histogram
Summary
In this lab, you got some good practice working with creating plots in Python using Matplotlib.
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