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ABC Bikes Inc. is considering expanding its bike rental service to a new county. Your job, as the company’s data analyst, is to determine factors that impact the demand for rental bikes in that area. You’ll extract the relevant data from a publicly available dataset into a pandas data frame. Then, using Matplotlib’s mplot3d toolkit, you’ll plot 3D graphs to simultaneously visualize more than two data features, enabling you to determine useful patterns including how temperature, time of day, and month of year impact bike rentals. When you’re finished, you’ll know how to use Matplotlib to create, customize, and rotate your 3D plots to gather useful and interesting insights.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.
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The liveProject is for data analysts, data scientists, research scholars, students, and hobbyists who would like to enhance their data analysis skills with the ability to plot 3D charts using Matplotlib. To begin these liveProjects you’ll need to be familiar with the following:
TOOLS- Intermediate Python programming skills (variables, functions, loops conditional statements, basic debugging, importing modules)
- Write and execute Python code using Jupyter Notebook
- Download and install Anaconda Python Distribution and Jupyter Notebook
- Install any required Python packages using conda or pip package managers
- Work with Jupyter Notebook
you will learn
In this liveProject, you’ll use Matplotlib to create, customize, and rotate your 3D plots to gather useful and interesting insights.
- Use pandas to read a CSV file into a dataframe
- Basic data wrangling
- Create a pivot table from a dataframe
- Change runtime configuration of Matplotlib plots
- Create 3D scatter plot and Surface Plot
- Add subplots to your figure
- Customize the color, marker, axes ticks, label, etc. of the plot
- Create interactive plots
- Save plots to .png or .pdf with a specified resolution
- Change the viewing angle/rotate a 3D plot
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