How do I generate multiple boxplots in one figure with pyplot instead of seaborn?

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#1

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The solution notebook shows how to solve this project question using seaborn, and I was wondering if I can just use pyplot instead.

My Code: 

only_4.plot.box(x = 'CountryLive', y = 'money_per_month')
plt.xticks(range(4), ['US', 'UK', 'India', 'Canada'])
plt.show()

What I expected to happen:
I expected to see four boxplots in a figure similar to this:
Screen Shot 2022-11-06 at 5.56.13 PM

What actually happened:
The code seems to generate only one boxplot in the figure:
Screen Shot 2022-11-06 at 5.27.55 PM

How should i code to generate the plot like the solution using pyplot? Should I use subplots?

#2

Hi @leezoe1008

Yes, you have to use subplots, otherwise you are only changing the name/value of the y axis.
A huge advantage of using pyplot and subplots is that you can use different ranges for each box, so you can show the distribution way better

I recommend you to read this https://towardsdatascience.com/creating-boxplots-of-well-log-data-using-matplotlib-in-python-34c3816e73f4

Good luck!

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