Make gauge charts through matplotlib side by side

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I am trying to follow this tutorial to make a gauge matplotlib plot and I am able to make three of them. I am wondering how to make them side by side. [I am just following the original code from the url]

gauge(labels=['LOW','MEDIUM','HIGH','EXTREME'], \
      colors=['#007A00','#0063BF','#FFCC00','#ED1C24'], arrow=3, title='something') 

gauge(labels=['LOW','MEDIUM','HIGH','EXTREME'], \
      colors=['#007A00','#0063BF','#FFCC00','#ED1C24'], arrow=3, title='anything') 

gauge(labels=['LOW','MEDIUM','HIGH','EXTREME'], \
      colors=['#007A00','#0063BF','#FFCC00','#ED1C24'], arrow=3, title='nothing')
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1 Answers

Refactor the gauge function so it accepts an ax argument:

def gauge(labels, colors, arrow, title, ax):
    # other code
    # ...

    # remove this
    # fig, ax = plt.subplots()

    # other code

    ax.set_frame_on(False)
    ax.axes.set_xticks([])
    ax.axes.set_yticks([])
    ax.axis('equal')
    # remove this as well
    # plt.tight_layout()

Then you can call:

# create the axes
# play with the numbers
fig, axes = plt.subplots(1,3)

gauge(labels=['LOW','MEDIUM','HIGH','EXTREME'], \
      colors=['#007A00','#0063BF','#FFCC00','#ED1C24'], arrow=3, title='something',
      ax=axes[0])

 gauge(labels=['LOW','MEDIUM','HIGH','EXTREME'], \
      colors=['#007A00','#0063BF','#FFCC00','#ED1C24'], arrow=3, title='anything',
      ax=axes[1]) 

gauge(labels=['LOW','MEDIUM','HIGH','EXTREME'], \
      colors=['#007A00','#0063BF','#FFCC00','#ED1C24'], arrow=3, title='nothing',
      ax=axes[2])
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