Twin axes
Sometimes, we may want to plot two charts on the same axes, but have a different scale of data. If we use a standard plot with the same scale on the left and right spines, charts may not look right due to a large difference in their scale of data. In such cases, we can use the twin axes feature provided by Matplotlib. We will learn how to use it in this recipe.
We will use product defects data for a month in a manufacturing plant for this example. We will draw a bar plot of the number of defects by reason code (for example 0 to 5, representing various reasons for producing defective products) and cumulative percentage line graph (sum total of defective products aggregated over reason codes).
There are three options for twinning ...
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