<p dir="auto"><strong>Feature summary</strong></p>

<p dir="auto">I often feel the need to execute the code right after I see the example or tutorials. Having the examples hosted on google colab would certainly help in quickly running the code as well as it will allow beginners to run the code right on the browser if they have no prior experience with python notebook or command-line tools.</p>
<h1 dir="auto">Problem</h1>
<p dir="auto">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 (<a href="https://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html?highlight=axes#basic" rel="nofollow">https://matplotlib.org/api/axes_api.html?highlight=axes#basic</a>) which intermixes  other functionality.  It's even harder to find the distinct chart types in the <a href="https://matplotlib.org/gallery/index.html" rel="nofollow">gallery</a>, where there are roughly 600? examples.</p>
<h1 dir="auto">Proposal</h1>
<p dir="auto">A new stand-alone sphinx gallery page where each plot type gets a minimal example of the form:</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-python notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" dir="auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="data = np.array([list of concrete values])
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plotting_method(data)"><pre class="notranslate"><span class="pl-s1">data</span> <span class="pl-c1">=</span> <span class="pl-s1">np</span>.<span class="pl-en">array</span>([<span class="pl-s1">list</span> <span class="pl-s1">of</span> <span class="pl-s1">concrete</span> <span class="pl-s1">values</span>])
<span class="pl-s1">fig</span>, <span class="pl-s1">ax</span> <span class="pl-c1">=</span> <span class="pl-s1">plt</span>.<span class="pl-en">subplots</span>()
<span class="pl-s1">ax</span>.<span class="pl-en">plotting_method</span>(<span class="pl-s1">data</span>)</pre></div>
<p dir="auto">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 <a href="https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/projects/10">https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/projects/10</a> by</p>
<ol dir="auto">
<li>creating notes for each plot type</li>
<li>replacing with PRs as folks tackle them.</li>
</ol>
<h2 dir="auto">Optional</h2>
<p dir="auto">Create a placeholder folder in the docs for PRs to target these examples so they're not waiting on the new gallery page.</p>