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How to Create PDF Reports with Python —

The Essential Guide

Create PDF reports with beautiful visualizations in 10 minutes or less

Dario Radečić

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Reports are everywhere, so any tech professional must know how to create them. It’s a tedious

and time-consuming task, which makes it a perfect candidate for automation with Python.

You can benefit from an automated report generation whether you’re a data scientist or a

software developer. For example, data scientists might use reports to show performance or

explanations of machine learning models.

This article will teach you how to make data-visualization-based reports and save them as PDFs.

To be more precise, you’ll learn how to combine multiple data visualizations (dummy sales data)

into a single PDF file.

And the best thing is — it’s easier than you think!

The article is structured as follows:

● Data generation

● Data visualization

● Create a PDF page structure

● Create PDF reports

● Conclusion

You can download the Notebook with the source code here.

Data generation
You can’t have reports without data. That’s why you’ll have to generate some first — more on that

in a bit.

Let’s start with the imports. You’ll need a bunch of things — but the FPDF library is likely the only

unknown. Put simply, it’s used to create PDFs, and you’ll work with it a bit later. Refer to the

following snippet for the imports:

Let’s generate some fake data next. The idea is to declare a function that returns a data frame of

dummy sales data for a given month. It does that by constructing a date range for the entire

month and then assigning the sales amount as a random integer within a given range.

You can use the calendar library to get the last day for any year/month combination. Here’s…
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Create PDF reports with beautiful visualizations in 10 minutes or less

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Photo by Jesse G-C on Unsplash
Reports are everywhere, so any tech professional must know how to create them. It’s a tedious

and time-consuming task, which makes it a perfect candidate for automation with Python.

You can benefit from an automated report generation whether you’re a data scientist or a

software developer. For example, data scientists might use reports to show performance or

explanations of machine learning models.

This article will teach you how to make data-visualization-based reports and save them as PDFs.

To be more precise, you’ll learn how to combine multiple data visualizations (dummy sales data)

into a single PDF file.

And the best thing is — it’s easier than you think!

The article is structured as follows:

● Data generation

● Data visualization

● Create a PDF page structure

● Create PDF reports

● Conclusion

You can download the Notebook with the source code here.

Data generation
You can’t have reports without data. That’s why you’ll have to generate some first — more on that

in a bit.

Let’s start with the imports. You’ll need a bunch of things — but the FPDF library is likely the only

unknown. Put simply, it’s used to create PDFs, and you’ll work with it a bit later. Refer to the

following snippet for the imports:

Let’s generate some fake data next. The idea is to declare a function that returns a data frame of

dummy sales data for a given month. It does that by constructing a date range for the entire

month and then assigning the sales amount as a random integer within a given range.

You can use the calendar library to get the last day for any year/month combination. Here’s…
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Reports are everywhere, so any tech professional must know how to create them. It’s a tedious

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You can benefit from an automated report generation whether you’re a data scientist or a

software developer. For example, data scientists might use reports to show performance or

explanations of machine learning models.

This article will teach you how to make data-visualization-based reports and save them as PDFs.

To be more precise, you’ll learn how to combine multiple data visualizations (dummy sales data)

into a single PDF file.

And the best thing is — it’s easier than you think!

The article is structured as follows:

● Data generation

● Data visualization

● Create a PDF page structure

● Create PDF reports

● Conclusion

You can download the Notebook with the source code here.

Data generation
You can’t have reports without data. That’s why you’ll have to generate some first — more on that

in a bit.

Let’s start with the imports. You’ll need a bunch of things — but the FPDF library is likely the only

unknown. Put simply, it’s used to create PDFs, and you’ll work with it a bit later. Refer to the

following snippet for the imports:

Let’s generate some fake data next. The idea is to declare a function that returns a data frame of

dummy sales data for a given month. It does that by constructing a date range for the entire

month and then assigning the sales amount as a random integer within a given range.

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Reports are everywhere, so any tech professional must know how to create them. It’s a tedious

and time-consuming task, which makes it a perfect candidate for automation with Python.

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software developer. For example, data scientists might use reports to show performance or

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This article will teach you how to make data-visualization-based reports and save them as PDFs.

To be more precise, you’ll learn how to combine multiple data visualizations (dummy sales data)

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And the best thing is — it’s easier than you think!

The article is structured as follows:

● Data generation

● Data visualization

● Create a PDF page structure

● Create PDF reports

● Conclusion

You can download the Notebook with the source code here.

Data generation
You can’t have reports without data. That’s why you’ll have to generate some first — more on that

in a bit.

Let’s start with the imports. You’ll need a bunch of things — but the FPDF library is likely the only

unknown. Put simply, it’s used to create PDFs, and you’ll work with it a bit later. Refer to the

following snippet for the imports:

Let’s generate some fake data next. The idea is to declare a function that returns a data frame of

dummy sales data for a given month. It does that by constructing a date range for the entire

month and then assigning the sales amount as a random integer within a given range.

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Create an account to read the full story.

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