matplotlib scatter plot change distance in x-axis

Question

I want to plot some Data with Matplotlib scatter plot. I used the following code to plot the Data as a scatter with using the same axes for the different subplots.

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

epsilon= np.array([1,2,3,4,5])

f, (ax1, ax2, ax3, ax4) = plt.subplots(4, sharex= True, sharey=True)
ax1.scatter(epsilon, mean_percent_100_0, color='r', label='Totaldehnung= 0.000')
ax1.scatter(epsilon, mean_percent_100_03, color='g',label='Totaldehnung= 0.003')
ax1.scatter(epsilon, mean_percent_100_05, color='b',label='Totaldehnung= 0.005')
ax1.set_title('TOR_R')
ax2.scatter(epsilon, mean_percent_111_0,color='r')
ax2.scatter(epsilon, mean_percent_111_03,color='g')
ax2.scatter(epsilon, mean_percent_111_05,color='b')
ax3.scatter(epsilon, mean_percent_110_0,color='r')
ax3.scatter(epsilon, mean_percent_110_03,color='g')
ax3.scatter(epsilon, mean_percent_110_05,color='b')
ax4.scatter(epsilon, mean_percent_234_0,color='r')
ax4.scatter(epsilon, mean_percent_234_03,color='g')
ax4.scatter(epsilon, mean_percent_234_05,color='b')

# Fine-tune figure; make subplots close to each other and hide x ticks for
# all but bottom plot.
f.subplots_adjust(hspace=0.13)
plt.setp([a.get_xticklabels() for a in f.axes[:-1]], visible=False)
plt.locator_params(axis = 'y', nbins = 4)

ax1.grid()
ax2.grid()
ax3.grid()
ax4.grid()

plt.show()

Now i want to have a x-axis with smaller space between each point. I tried to change the range but it was not working. Can someone help me? enter image description here

Do you just want your figure to be "narrower" overall? If so, you can use the `figsize` keyword argument in your `plt.subplots` command. If you don't just want your figure to be narrower, then you'll need to say a bit more about what you want. In particular, do you want extra whitespace to the left of your more-tightly-spaced x-axis, or to the right, or something else? — 8one6, Oct 13 '14 at 15:27
the distances between the 1,2,3... should be smaller, so yes a more-tightly-spaced x-axis. — user3616531, Oct 13 '14 at 19:13

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

To make the x ticks come closer you might have to set the dimensions of the figure.

Since, in your case, the figure is already created, Set the size of the plot using set_size_inches method of the figure object.

This question contains a few other ways to do the same.

Adding the following line before the plt.show()

fig.set_size_inches(2,8)

Gives me this :

enter image description here

Which I hope is what you are trying to do.

matplotlib scatter plot change distance in x-axis

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