title: Histogram with breaking axis and interlaced colorbar
body: <p>I have data as those ones</p>
  
  <pre><code>        a       b       c       d       e
  alpha   5.51    0.60    -0.12   26.90   76284.53
  beta    3.39    0.94    -0.17   -0.20   -0.20
  gamma   7.98    3.34    -1.41   7.74    28394.93
  delta   2.29    1.24    0.40    0.29    0.28
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to do a nice publishable histogram as this one <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/Ubeoj.png" alt="interlaced colorbar histogram"></p>
  
  <p>but with a break in the y axis so we can figure out the variation of <em>a</em> , <em>b</em> , <em>c</em> , <em>d</em> and <em>e</em> so that data will not be squashed by extreme values in <em>e</em> column as this one but using interlaced colorbar histogram:
  <img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/aznNW.png" alt="breaking y axis"></p>
  
  <p>I would like to do that in python (matplotlib, pandas, numpy/scipy) or in mathematica... or any other open and free high-level language (R, scilab, ...). Thanks for your help. </p>
  
  <p>edit: using matplotlib through pandas allows to adjust the space between the two subgraph using option button at bottom left "hspace".</p>