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#Why

I haven't seen any visualizations of "Exploding Bar Charts" using matplotlib like the this one:

So I put together some very quick code to show how it could be done

#WIP

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def gen_tickers(num_tickers, num_new):
    """
    This function generates `num_tickers` of random, length 3 tickers and 
    `num_new` random, length 3 tickers
    """
    s  = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'
    r = numpy.random.randint(1, 27, 3)
    ticks = []
    #create the list of tickers
    for i in numpy.arange(num_tickers):