René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Axis limits are set badly with small values in scatter().","articleBody":"I'm not sure if this is related to https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/7413\r\n\r\n\r\n### Bug report\r\n\r\nExample:\r\n\r\n```py\r\n%pylab\r\nx = randn(1000) / 1e5\r\ny = randn(1000) / 1e5\r\nscatter(x, y)\r\n```\r\nproduces this:\r\n![figure_1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/167164/33868162-750d413c-df55-11e7-9d9b-79107cb34b34.png)\r\n\r\nIt should really produce something more like this:\r\n\r\n![figure_1-2](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/167164/33868215-caa17b5e-df55-11e7-875b-7d79a8afa98a.png)\r\n\r\nThere's not an obvious way to do this, other than manually getting the min/max x and y values and adding a little bit and using `ax.set_x/ylim()`\r\n\r\nUsing conda on kubuntu:\r\n\r\n```\r\nmatplotlib                2.1.0            py36hba5de38_0  \r\npython                    3.6.3                h0ef2715_3  \r\n```","author":{"url":"https://github.com/naught101","@type":"Person","name":"naught101"},"datePublished":"2017-12-12T05:05:48.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":6},"url":"https://github.com/9979/matplotlib/issues/9979"}