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Exercise: Plot Daily and Cumulative Word Counts

Christopher Bailey

Interactive Data Visualization With Bokeh and Python Christopher Bailey 14:30

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Overview

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Welcome to Bokeh

Intro and Bokeh Course Overview 03:49

From Data to Visualization 02:47

Setting Up Your Bokeh Environment 02:55

Generating Your First Figure to a Static HTML File 03:14

Generating Your First Figure to a Jupyter Notebook 01:59

Getting Your Figure Ready for Data 04:46

Exercise: Configure a Bokeh Figure for Data 11:00

Drawing Data With Glyphs 04:16

Multiple Glyphs and Adding a Legend 06:45

Exercise: Plot Daily and Cumulative Word Counts 14:30

Bokeh Course: Section 1 Review 01:21

Working With Data and Layouts

Bokeh Course: Section 2 Overview 01:08

A Quick Aside About Data 03:59

Using the ColumnDataSource Object 09:52

Using GroupFilter and CDSView 04:21

Exercise: Filter Team Standings With CDSView 15:00

Multiple Visualizations Using Column Layout 07:59

GridPlot Layout 05:22

Tabbed Layout With Panels 04:10

Exercise: Organize Conference Races Into Tabs 18:00

Bokeh Course: Section 2 Review 01:08

Adding Interaction

Bokeh Course: Section 3 Overview 01:07

Configuring the Toolbar 03:19

Selecting Data Points 10:45

Adding Hover Actions 03:23

Emphasizing With Hover Inspections 02:52

Exercise: Add Hover Tooltips to a Three-Point Scatter Plot 18:00

Linking Axes 12:56

Exercise: Link Axes Across a Game Log Grid 17:30

Linking Selections 10:44

Highlighting Data Using the Legend 08:14

Bokeh Course: Recap and Review 03:59

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