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Summary

This tutorial teaches developers how to efficiently visualize time series data using InfluxDB, a leading high-performance time series database, and Matplotlib, a popular plotting library for Python. The author guides the reader through setting up an InfluxDB Cloud account, creating a bucket, installing required packages, and writing data into the bucket using a Python client. The tutorial then shows how to use Flux language to query the data from the bucket and pivot it into a dataframe for analysis. Finally, the reader learns how to normalize the dataframe to create professional charts and visualize the data with Matplotlib. Throughout the tutorial, the author provides examples of various types of visualizations, including line plots, scatter plots, bar charts, pie charts, and radar plots. The tutorial concludes by analyzing the stock prices over time and discussing options for more in-depth analysis and forecasting methodologies.