polio cases plot

README.md

Files:

• README.md: This readme.
• plot.py: Python 3 script for plotting the data.
• polio.txt: International Wild Poliovirus Cases by Year, from 1.

plot.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import csv
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from mpl_toolkits.axes_grid.inset_locator import inset_axes, mark_inset

ys = []
rs = []

reader = csv.reader(open('polio.tsv', newline=''), delimiter='\t')
next(reader) # skip top row
for row in reader:
    year = int(row[0])
    recorded = int(row[2].replace(",", ""))
    ys.append(year)
    rs.append(recorded)

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(ys, rs)
axins = inset_axes(ax, width="60%", height=2.7, loc=1)
axins.plot(ys, rs)
axins.set_xlim(2000, 2016)
axins.set_ylim(0, 2100)
mark_inset(ax, axins, loc1=3, loc2=4, fc="none", ec="0.5")

plt.show()

polio.tsv