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Bar Chart With a Broken Y Axis in Python Using Seaborn
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MeerkatPerson commented Aug 3, 2020 •
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Offiziell Most Savage Plot Ive Seen today

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rafmora commented Mar 7, 2022

I wonder if the "looking break-like" between both graphs is because of the subplot definition "f, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(ncols=1, nrows=2 sharex=True)". Particularly, the common 'y-axis' and the absence of a 'x-axis title" for the upper graphs creates an effect of "break-like"
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@rafmora Yes I think you're exactly right. The "broken" look is exactly what we wanted to achieve to present the data without cutting off outliers or using a logarithmic scale, which can both be misleading

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Hi pfandzelter

running your code I get this:
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I have pandas 1.4.2 and seaborn 0.11.2.

Do you know why the bars are not displaying in the correct scale and inside the y-axis limits?

Thanks a lot
Gonzalo

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