Adding a data table to the figure
Although matplotlib is mainly a plotting library, it helps us with small errands when we are creating a chart, such as having a neat data table beside our beautiful chart. In this recipe, you will be learning how to display a data table alongside the plots in the figure.
Getting ready
It is important to understand why we are adding a table to a chart. The main intention of plotting data visually is to explain the otherwise not understandable (or hardly understandable) data values. Now, we want to add that data back. It is not wise just to cram a big table with values underneath the chart.
But, carefully picked, maybe the summed or highlighted values from the whole, a charted dataset can identify important parts of ...
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