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Python Data Visualization Cookbook (Second Edition)
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Python Data Visualization Cookbook (Second Edition)

by Igor Milovanovic, Dimitry Foures, Giuseppe Vettigli
November 2015
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
6h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Python Data Visualization Cookbook (Second Edition)

Creating stem plot

A two-dimensional stem plot displays data as lines extending from a baseline along the x-axis. A circle (the default) or the other marker's y-position represents the data value that terminates each stem.

In this recipe, we will be discussing about how to create a stem plot.

Do not confuse stem with stem and leaf plots, which is a method of representing data by separating the last important digit of values as leaves and higher order values as stems.

Creating stem plot

Getting ready

For this kind of plot, we need to use a sequence of discrete data, where ordinary an line plots wouldn't make sense anyway.

Plot discrete sequences as stems, where data values ...

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