An Underrated Technique to Enhance Your Data Visualizations

While creating data visualizations, there are often certain parts that are particularly important.

Yet, they may not be immediately obvious to the viewer.

A good data storyteller always ensures that the plot guides the viewer’s attention to these key areas.

One great (yet underrated) way is to zoom in on specific regions of interest in a plot, as depicted below.

In contrast to the usual plot, the other plot guides the viewer’s attention to a specific area of interest.

Such efforts always ensure that the plot indeed communicates what we intend it to depict — even if the plot’s creator is not present at that time.

In matplotlib, you can do so using 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞_𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐭_𝐳𝐨𝐨𝐦(). It adds an indicator box, which can be zoomed-in for better clarity.

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