# If we were to simply plot pts, we'd lose most of the interesting
# details due to the outliers. So let's 'break' or 'cut-out' the y-axis
# into two portions - use the top (ax) for the outliers, and the bottom
# (ax2) for the details of the majority of our data
f, (ax, ax2) = plt.subplots(2, 1, sharex=True)
# plot the same data on both axes
ax.plot(pts)
ax2.plot(pts)
# zoom-in / limit the view to different portions of the data
ax.set_ylim(.78, 1.) # outliers only
ax2.set_ylim(0, .22) # most of the data
# hide the spines between ax and ax2
ax.spines['bottom'].set_visible(False)
ax2.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
ax.xaxis.tick_top()
ax.tick_params(labeltop='off') # don't put tick labels at the top
ax2.xaxis.tick_bottom()
# This looks pretty good, and was fairly painless, but you can ge