I have an existing plot that was created with pandas like this: df[‘myvar’].plot(kind=’bar’) The y axis is format as float and I want to change the y axis to percentages. All of the solutions I found use ax.xyz syntax and I can only place code below the line above that creates the plot (I cannot … Read more
Every time I make a plot using ggplot, I spend a little while trying different values for hjust and vjust in a line like + opts(axis.text.x = theme_text(hjust = 0.5)) to get the axis labels to line up where the axis labels almost touch the axis, and are flush against it (justified to the axis, … Read more
I want to plot data, then create a new figure and plot data2, and finally come back to the original plot and plot data3, kinda like this: import numpy as np import matplotlib as plt x = arange(5) y = np.exp(5) plt.figure() plt.plot(x, y) z = np.sin(x) plt.figure() plt.plot(x, z) w = np.cos(x) plt.figure(“””first figure”””) … Read more
The following code plots to two PostScript (.ps) files, but the second one contains both lines. import matplotlib import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.mlab as mlab plt.subplot(111) x = [1,10] y = [30, 1000] plt.loglog(x, y, basex=10, basey=10, ls=”-“) plt.savefig(“first.ps”) plt.subplot(111) x = [10,100] y = [10, 10000] plt.loglog(x, y, basex=10, basey=10, ls=”-“) plt.savefig(“second.ps”) How … Read more
This question already has answers here: Which is the recommended way to plot: matplotlib or pylab? (2 answers) Closed last year. What is the difference between matplotlib.pyplot and matplotlib.pylab? Which is preferred for what usage? I am a little confused, because it seems like independent from which I import, I can do the same things. … Read more
I have an array of timestamps in the format (HH:MM:SS.mmmmmm) and another array of floating point numbers, each corresponding to a value in the timestamp array. Can I plot time on the x axis and the numbers on the y-axis using Matplotlib? I was trying to, but somehow it was only accepting arrays of floats. … Read more
I have been playing with Numpy and matplotlib in the last few days. I am having problems trying to make matplotlib plot a function without blocking execution. I know there are already many threads here on SO asking similar questions, and I ‘ve googled quite a lot but haven’t managed to make this work. I … Read more
As the title says: How can I plot a legend outside the plotting area when using base graphics? I thought about fiddling around with layout and produce an empty plot to only contain the legend, but I would be interested in a way using just the base graph facilities and e.g., par(mar = ) to … Read more
The data I’m playing with comes from the internet source listed below nba <- read.csv(“http://datasets.flowingdata.com/ppg2008.csv”, sep=”,”) What I want to do, is create a 2D points graph comparing two metrics from this table, with each player representing a dot on the graph. I have the following code: nbaplot <- ggplot(nba, aes(x= MIN, y= PTS, colour=”green”, … Read more
So talented people have figured out how to make xkcd style graphs in Mathematica, in LaTeX, in Python and in R already. How can one use MATLAB to produce a plot that looks like the one above? What I have tried I created wiggly lines, but I couldn’t get wiggly axes. The only solution I … Read more
