Description
Problem
Matplotlib supports give or take around 60 unique chart types, but there's no distinct listing of these charts. The closest is a listing of all methods on Axes (https://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html?highlight=axes#basic) which intermixes other functionality. It's even harder to find the distinct chart types in the gallery, where there are roughly 600? examples.
Proposal
A new stand-alone sphinx gallery page where each plot type gets a minimal example of the form:
data = np.array([list of concrete values])
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plotting_method(data)no generated data, no tweaking of the parameters in the plot, just an out of the box this is what this plotting method does. intention is to manage issue via https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/projects/10 by
- creating notes for each plot type
- replacing with PRs as folks tackle them.
Optional
Create a placeholder folder in the docs for PRs to target these examples so they're not waiting on the new gallery page.