Pandas' figure is getting cut when saving

Question

The DataFrame data, where date is an index look like:

date        count   
2017-03-20  119
2017-03-29  100
2017-04-03  118
2017-04-10  113

date(index) has a format datetime64[ns].

When i try to plot it with

p = data.plot(kind="bar"),

it adds hours:minuts:seconds to the axis values(to dates). So, when i save it with

fig = p.get_figure()
fig.savefig('figure.jpeg'),

The frame cuts off days,month,yeear and leaves only zeros from minuts,seconds...

jezrael · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-18T08:34:08.090

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You can use strftime + tight_layout:

import matplotlib.ticker as ticker
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

ticklabels = data.index.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')
ax = data.plot(kind="bar")
plt.tight_layout()
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(ticker.FixedFormatter(ticklabels))

edited May 18 '17 at 08:34

answered May 18 '17 at 08:04

jezrael

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Please, see the edit – Ladenkov Vladislav May 18 '17 at 08:20
If change `data.plot(kind="bar",figsize=(12,8))` it dont help? – jezrael May 18 '17 at 08:29
That works, but is the plot square in your output too? The histogram itself became really small. Is there a way to increase space for ticks with no harm to hist size? – Ladenkov Vladislav May 18 '17 at 08:46
Hmmm, hard question for me, but maybe help [this](http://stackoverflow.com/a/6776578/2901002) – jezrael May 18 '17 at 08:57
Ok, thanks for help – Ladenkov Vladislav May 18 '17 at 08:58

Pandas' figure is getting cut when saving

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