:orphan: :html_theme.sidebar_secondary.remove: .. This document is auto-generated by the altair-gallery extension. Do not modify directly. .. _gallery_anscombe_plot: Anscombe's Quartet ------------------ `Anscombe's Quartet `_ is a famous dataset constructed by Francis Anscombe. It is made of 4 different subsets of data. Each subset has very different characteristics, even though common summary statistics such as mean and variance are identical. This example shows how to make a faceted plot, with each facet showing a different subset of the data. .. altair-plot:: :remove-code: import altair as alt from vega_datasets import data source = data.anscombe() alt.Chart(source).mark_circle().encode( alt.X("X", scale=alt.Scale(zero=False)), alt.Y("Y", scale=alt.Scale(zero=False)), alt.Facet("Series", columns=2), ).properties( width=180, height=180, ) .. tab-set:: .. tab-item:: Method syntax :sync: method .. code:: python import altair as alt from vega_datasets import data source = data.anscombe() alt.Chart(source).mark_circle().encode( alt.X("X").scale(zero=False), alt.Y("Y").scale(zero=False), alt.Facet("Series", columns=2), ).properties( width=180, height=180, ) .. tab-item:: Attribute syntax :sync: attribute .. code:: python import altair as alt from vega_datasets import data source = data.anscombe() alt.Chart(source).mark_circle().encode( alt.X("X", scale=alt.Scale(zero=False)), alt.Y("Y", scale=alt.Scale(zero=False)), alt.Facet("Series", columns=2), ).properties( width=180, height=180, )