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Matplotlib 102 — Basic Introduction to Multiplot, Subplot and Gridspec

Advance your data storytelling through visualization with multiplot and subplot

11 min readApr 5, 2023

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When stakeholders in your company ask you to analyze the data and deliver it to them through data visualization, you might use a simple and single plot for one insight or information. What if the stakeholders ask you to overlap the information that you’ve created with another data or dimension? Will you make another graph or chart? Or put the data into the previous graph or chart?

If you choose the second option, this article is for you because we will discuss how to create multiplot and subplots for advancing your data visualization. After reading this article, you are expected to understand the differences between single plot, multiplot and subplot; to create multiplot and subplot using the matplotlib package, and to customize your own basic plot to be multiplot and subplot.

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Differences between multiplot and subplot

Matplotlib is a popular data visualization library in Python, and it provides several ways to create multiplots and subplots. While these two techniques are similar, there are some…

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