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Anscombe's Quartet
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`Anscombe's Quartet <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_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::
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    import altair as alt
    from altair.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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    .. tab-item:: Method syntax
        :sync: method

        .. code:: python


            import altair as alt
            from altair.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 altair.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,
            )
