Visual Data Storytelling with Blender and Python

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Shows concrete pipelines: use matplotlib FuncAnimation to generate frames and hand them to FFmpeg for MP4/GIF, export plots from pandas/CSV/Excel; use manim + Cairo render pipeline to produce vector math animations and inject matplotlib images; use Blender bpy API to script scene, lights, camera and spawn animated cubes or 3D confusion-matrix bars. Example notebooks and rendered clips exist; some demo videos fail live due to network but the code-based builds produce reproducible movies.

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1. 0:00Visual data storytelling intro
2. 1:49Python for data viz
3. 3:57Matplotlib animation basics
4. 6:06Funk vs artist animation
5. 8:56Matplotlib animated plot examples
6. 12:06Manim math animations intro
7. 13:10How Manim works
8. 15:16Manim scene setup
9. 17:41Manim wave animations
10. 20:33Linear transformations in Manim
11. 21:16Matplotlib + Manim combo
12. 22:38Blender Python API
13. 23:40Blender scene management
14. 25:03Blender object manipulation
15. 27:063D confusion matrix in Blender
16. 28:30Excel line graphs
17. 29:11Q&A

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