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Anscombe's Quartet
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This example shows how to use the column channel to make a trellis plot. Anscombe's Quartet is a famous dataset constructed by Francis Anscombe. Common summary statistics are identical for each subset of the data, despite the subsets having vastly different characteristics.


.. altair-plot::
    :code-below:

    
    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,
    )


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