Palmer Penguins

import pandas as pd
import altair as alt
import seaborn as sns
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

Data from Palmer Penguins R package

penguins = pd.read_csv("https://pos.it/palmer-penguins-github-csv")
penguins.groupby("species").size().reset_index(name = "count")
species count
0 Adelie 152
1 Chinstrap 68
2 Gentoo 124
colors = ["#FF8C00", "#A020F0", "#008B8B"]
sns.set_palette(colors, n_colors = 3)
penguins["bill_ratio"] = (
   penguins["bill_length_mm"] / penguins["bill_depth_mm"] 
)
sns.displot(penguins, 
            x = "bill_ratio", 
            hue = "species", 
            kind = "kde", fill = True, aspect = 2, height = 3)
plt.show()

A density plot of bill ratio by species.

sns.displot(penguins, 
            x = "bill_depth_mm", 
            hue = "species", 
            kind = "kde", fill = True, 
            aspect = 2, height = 3)
plt.show()
sns.displot(penguins, 
            x = "bill_length_mm", 
            hue = "species", 
            kind = "kde", fill = True, 
            aspect = 2, height = 3)
plt.show()
Density plot of bill depth by species.
(a) Gentoo penguins tend to have thinner bills,
Density plot of bill length by species.
(b) and Adelie penguins tend to have shorter bills.
Figure 1: Marginal distributions of bill dimensions
scale = alt.Scale(domain = ['Adelie', 'Chinstrap', 'Gentoo'],
                  range = colors)
alt.Chart(penguins).mark_circle(size=60).encode(
    alt.X('bill_length_mm',
        scale=alt.Scale(zero=False)
    ),
    alt.Y('bill_depth_mm',
        scale=alt.Scale(zero=False)
    ),
    color = alt.Color('species', scale = scale),
    tooltip=['species', 'sex', 'island']
)
Figure 2: A scatterplot of bill dimensions for penguins, made with Altair.

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