Feature request: groupby.plot() generate subplots not working

[RolandRitt]

I want to make plots of grouped data, where each plot is plotted in a subplot:
I tried without any kwargs in plotting command, i tried with kwargs subplots=True and with layout=(3,1) but always only one plot which includes every group is plotted

My code:

import sys
import datetime
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
import numpy as np


%matplotlib notebook


dates = pd.date_range('2013-07-14 11:00:00', '2013-07-16 11:00:00', freq = 's')
cats = np.random.choice(['m', 'f', 'c'], len(dates))
data =np.random.randn(len(dates),1)

df = pd.DataFrame(data, dates)
df.columns = ['data']
df['cats']= cats
plt.figure()
ax1 = df.groupby('cats')['data'].plot(subplots=True) #Figure1
plt.figure()
ax2 = df.groupby('cats')['data'].plot() #Figure2
plt.figure()
ax3 = df.groupby('cats')['data'].plot(layout=(3,1)) #Figure3

Im using

pd.__version__
'0.18.0rc1'

[RolandRitt]

I just found out that if i change for example ax1 = df.groupby('cats')['data'].plot(subplots=True) #Figure1 to ax1 = df.groupby('cats').plot(subplots=True) #Figure1 seperate plots are generated, but it woult be nice here to define, that each group is plotted as a subplot..(or a row of a subplot

updated Code:

import os
import sys
import datetime
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.dates as mdates
import numpy as np


%matplotlib notebook


dates = pd.date_range('2013-07-14 11:00:00', '2013-07-16 11:00:00', freq = 's')
cats = np.random.choice(['m', 'f', 'c'], len(dates))
data =np.random.randn(len(dates),1)

df = pd.DataFrame(data, dates)
df.columns = ['data']
df['cats']= cats
plt.figure()
ax1 = df.groupby('cats').plot(subplots=True) #Figure1
plt.figure()
ax2 = df.groupby('cats').plot() #Figure2
plt.figure()
ax3 = df.groupby('cats').plot(layout=(3,1)) #Figure3

[jreback]

@TomAugspurger @sinhrks

[CarloNicolini]

When having multiple categories, is it possible to reorganize the plot to be in a seaborn FacetGrid format?
Or simply wrapping the columns of the subplot to a certain value?