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It's been 18 years since ggplot2 revolutionized data visualization in R. To celebrate this milestone, I'm offering a special bundle deal on my visualization and linear models books.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ggplot2
After years of wrestling with base R plots, fighting with lattice, and finally embracing the grammar of graphics, I've distilled everything into this guide. Learn to create publication-ready visualizations and even replicate styles from XKCD, The Economist, and FiveThirtyEight. No more googling "how to rotate axis labels in ggplot2" at 2 AM or using AI tools to guide your code attempts.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Plotnine
Love ggplot2 but work mostly in Python? This book brings the elegance of the grammar of graphics to Python through plotnine. Same powerful concepts, different language. Perfect for data scientists who would like a "gglot2 for Python" experience.
About the Books
This is a technical book. The scope of the book is to go straight to the point and the writing style is similar to a recipe with detailed instructions. It is assumed that you know the basics of R and that you want to learn how to create beautiful plots.
Each chapter will explain how to create a different type of plot, and will take you step-by-step from a basic plot to a highly customised graph. The chapters' order is by degree of difficulty.
Every chapter is independent from the others. You can read the whole book or go to a section of interest and we are sure that it will be easy to understand the instructions and reproduce our examples without reading the first chapters.
This is a technical book which is designed to get you building your own graphs in plotnine as quickly as possible. We have designed each chapter similar to a cookbook, but with detailed recipes which allow you to fully customise your graphs. It is assumed that you know the basics of Python and pandas and that you want to learn how to create beautiful plots.
Each chapter will explain how to create a different type of plot, and will take you step-by-step from a basic plot to a highly customised graph. Every chapter is independent from the others. You can read the whole book or go to a section of interest and we are sure that it will be easy to understand the instructions and reproduce our examples without reading the first chapters.
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