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Next, we will use the plot function to plot these data points and the show () function to visualise these data points. You can see the output here.

We can see a line graph is plotted by default. There are two axis here: a vertical axis or the Y axis and a horizontal axis or the X axis. The Y-axis represents the ‘close price’ of the infy series and the X-axis represents the ‘dates’. You can see a sharp drop in prices from 1185 to almost 1145, however, it is quite difficult to read the dates here. So, let us tweak this code a bit and make the plot visually appealing and understandable.

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