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Fitting xticks on x-axis - schniefen - May-08-2019
I'm working on a plot of energy consumption versus month over a period of years.
import matplotlib.pyplot as pat
kwh=[88736,92100,95420,98161,100326,...,327384]
yearmonthday=['2003-01-01','2003-02-01','2003-03-01','2003-04-01',...,'2015-06-01']
plt.plot(range(len(kwh)),kwh)
plt.xticks(range(len(yearmonthday)),yearmonthday)
plt.title('Energy consumption 2003-2015')
plt.ylabel('Kilowatthour')
plt.figure(figsize=(10,6))
plt.savefig('Plotx.jpg')
plt.show()The current output of the plot looks something like this.[attachment=631]
I would like to add the dates as ticks on the x-axis, yet this gets very tight. The command
plt.figure(figsize=(10,6)) doesn't really seem to work, since whenever I change it the saved figure is a blank one.
RE: Fitting xticks on x-axis - heiner55 - May-28-2019
You can rotate the xticks:
#!/usr/bin/python3
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
kwh=[88736,92100,95420,98161,100326,327384]
yearmonthday=['2003-01-01','2003-02-01','2003-03-01','2003-04-01','2015-06-01']
.
plt.plot(range(len(kwh)),kwh)
plt.xticks(range(len(yearmonthday)),yearmonthday,rotation='vertical')
plt.title('Energy consumption 2003-2015')
plt.ylabel('Kilowatthour')
plt.savefig('Plotx.jpg')
plt.show()