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title: plot
description: This page provides an elaborative guide to users on how to plot data
  based on their index with interactive examples.
keywords:
- Data Plotting
- Plot usage
- Dataset.column values
- Plot parameters
- Python plot guide
- Data visualization
- index-based plotting
- Programming
---

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Plot data based on the index

### Usage

```python
plot [-v {}]
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Description | Default | Optional | Choices |
| ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- | ------- |
| values | Dataset.column values to be displayed in a plot. Use comma to separate multiple | None | True | None |


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## Examples

```python
(🦋) /forecast/ $ load aapl.csv

(🦋) /forecast/ $ plot appl.close
```
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