While generating data in 3d space for manifold learning, I went across a problem of distributing points evenly on a sphere. It is a non-trivial problem but found a good enough solution for such placement. Interestingly, it ends up with a really cool animation effect when I decided to implement it on a mobile app. Figure 1: First animation effect: Rotation The algorithm There are two qualitatively...
Data Visualization – Charts with Matplotlib
A common use for notebooks is data visualization using charts. It is easy with several charting tools available as Python imports. This article covers some common charts using matplotlib.
Matplotlib
Matplotlib is the most common charting package, see its documentation for details, and its examples for inspiration.
Charting