plt.show() does not print plt.plot only plt.scatter

Question

So, for the following code no graph is printed in jupyter notebook. If I use plt.scatter then it does produce graph. Any suggestions what could be wrong? Can it be caused by the data?

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


def calc_gauss(df, index):

    x=df.iloc[[index]]
    mean = df.apply(lambda x: x.mean(), axis=1)
    mu=mean.iloc[[index]]
    std = df.std(axis=1)
    sig=std.iloc[[index]]

    dens = norm.pdf(x,mu,sig)

    # build the plot
    fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(9,6))
    plt.style.use('fivethirtyeight')
    ax.plot(x, dens)
    return plt.show()

calc_gauss(df_distance, 339)

instead of `return plt.show()` just do `plt.show()`. That should work. — Shahir Ansari, May 01 '20 at 06:45

Andrei · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-24T05:44:17.923

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Instead of

return plt.show()

use

fig.show()

If you want the picture to show in the notebook, use %matplotlib inline in a cell evaluated before the show command

Note the problem was that the arrays were shape (1,24). plot likes only 1D arrays. Replacing ax.plot(x, dens) with ax.plot(x.reshape(-1), dens.reshape(-1)) solved the issue.

edited Apr 24 '20 at 05:44

answered Apr 24 '20 at 04:56

Andrei

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Hi, it doesn’t seem to do anything. – Ignas Pakamorė Apr 24 '20 at 05:07
Can you print the shape and values of `x` and `dens`? – Andrei Apr 24 '20 at 05:17
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That's the problem. `plot` likes only 1D arrays. Replace `ax.plot(x, dens)` with `ax.plot(x.reshape(-1), dens.reshape(-1))` – Andrei Apr 24 '20 at 05:35

plt.show() does not print plt.plot only plt.scatter

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