Making Chart Informative

Let's improve the last chart with some information!

To improve the 'readability' of this plot, we can set the labels on the axis, set the title for the chart, and add a label to the colormap legend. All the things but the last one can be done within the .set function applied to the Axes object. Within the .set() function we can pass xlabel, ylabel and title to set labels for the x-axis, y-axis, and title for an entire plot respectively. To add the title for colormap legend, we first need to assign .colorbar() to some variable. Then, we need to call Axes object (usually ax) and call .set_xlabel() (or .set_ylabel() for vertical text) function passing the required label as an argument.


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# Import the libraries
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Reading the data
data = pd.read_csv('https://codefinity-content-media.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ed80401e-2684-4bc4-a077-99d13a386ac7/gapminder2017.csv', index_col = 0)

# Create Figure and Axes objects
fig, ax = plt.subplots()

# Initialize a scatter plot and colorbar
cax = ax.scatter(data['gdp per capita'], data['internet users'], c = data['life exp'], cmap = 'cividis')

# Add information on chart
ax.set(xlabel = 'GDP per capita, $', ylabel = 'Share of population with Internet access, %', 
      title = 'GDP per capita, Internet availability and Life expectancy')


# Add colormap and its legend
cbar = fig.colorbar(cax)
cbar.ax.set_xlabel('Life expectancy')

# Display the plot
plt.show()

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Section 3. Chapter 11