Ben Dichter

Ben Dichter

Research Software Engineer and Founder of CatalystNeuro.

brokenaxes

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broken python snake

I created a Python package for creating broken axes plots like this one:

brokenaxes example

You can create discontinuities along the x and/or y axis. It also has compatibility for a number of other useful features like subplots and non-standard axes like log and datetime. Check out the documentation with plenty of examples on the GitHub repo.

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