Python Matplotlib scatter plot adding x-axis labels

Question

I have this following code in order to generate scatterplots

            import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

              line = plt.figure()    
              plt.plot(xvalue, yvalue)
              plt.grid(True)
              plt.savefig("test.png")
              plt.show()

and here is the screenshot of the plot:

I am just wondering if i could change the x-axis labels into strings. I have stored all the labels in

    xlabel = ['2015/4/1', '2015/4/11', '2015/4/12', '2015/4/18', '2015/4/19'...]

Is there any function for matplotlib so that i could set x-axis labels to the values in "xlabel"?

many thx!

ALso my labels are overlapped, anything i could do to fix this problem? thx!

Han Zhengzu · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-06 02:16:38Z

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Here is my answer. You target was to plot the datetime as xticklabel.
I always do something like this. Code like this:

## For example, I have 9 daily value during 2013-04-01 to 2014-04-10
start = datetime.datetime.strptime("01-04-2013", "%d-%m-%Y")
end = datetime.datetime.strptime("10-04-2013", "%d-%m-%Y")
date = [start + datetime.timedelta(days=x) for x in range(0, (end-start).days)]

plt.figure(figsize=(12,4))
## y is the data I want to plot
ind = np.arange(len(y))
ax=plt.subplot()
plt.plot(ind,y,lw = 3)
k = []
for i in range(0,len(ind),1):
    k.append(str(date[i])[0:10])

plt.xticks(ind,k,rotation=65)

Update

To solve the overlap problem, I recommend the code below:

for label in ax.xaxis.get_ticklabels()[::2]:
    label.set_visible(False)

For daily value in a month, you can get a figure like this:

edited Apr 6, 2016 at 2:16

answered Apr 6, 2016 at 2:11

Han Zhengzu

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yingnan liu Over a year ago

thx for the thorough answer! exactly waht i want for the overlapping issue!

Davis Yoshida · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-06 01:51:10Z

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Do:

plt.xticks(xs, labels)

Where xs is a list of the positions for the ticks, and labels is the list of labels.

answered Apr 6, 2016 at 1:51

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yingnan liu Over a year ago

sorry about pressing the enter button by accident. my labels are overlapped, is there anyway to fix this? thx!

yingnan liu Over a year ago

i did try plt.xticks(xvalue, dates,rotation=45) and plt.subplots_adjust(bottom=0.05). but they are not working so well. thx for the help!

yingnan liu Over a year ago

i have solved the problem of overlapping with other's answer. Thx for the xticks thing!

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