A Killer Fix for Scrunched Axes, Step-by-step

Make beautiful multi-scale plots with matplotlib in 3 easy steps.

Large-magnitude outliers, tiny features, and sharp spikes are common frustrations to data visualization. All three can make visual details illegible by scrunching plot components into too small an area.

Sometimes a fix can be had by simply excluding unruly data. When including such data is chief to a question at hand, applying a log scale to axes can realign spacing for better separation among lower magnitude data. This approach can …

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