style_sheets example code: plot_fivethirtyeight.py

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"""
===========================
FiveThirtyEight style sheet
===========================

This shows an example of the "fivethirtyeight" styling, which
tries to replicate the styles from FiveThirtyEight.com.
"""

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import numpy as np


plt.style.use('fivethirtyeight')

x = np.linspace(0, 10)

# Fixing random state for reproducibility
np.random.seed(19680801)

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

ax.plot(x, np.sin(x) + x + np.random.randn(50))
ax.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 0.5 * x + np.random.randn(50))
ax.plot(x, np.sin(x) + 2 * x + np.random.randn(50))
ax.plot(x, np.sin(x) - 0.5 * x + np.random.randn(50))
ax.plot(x, np.sin(x) - 2 * x + np.random.randn(50))
ax.plot(x, np.sin(x) + np.random.randn(50))
ax.set_title("'fivethirtyeight' style sheet")

plt.show()

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