I am creating a scatter plot, where in points are very close to each other. I am labelling each points but labels are overlapping each other other and making it difficult to read. So is there a way we can take labels outside the figure by drawing lines. I have pasted the expected o/p below.
In above image 'X' are points, 'L' are labels, and square box is the figure. Any thoughts or suggestions.
Here are two different ways to do it, one outside of the axes area and two inside:
x = np.arange(5)
y = np.random.rand(5)
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.scatter(x, y)
arrow1 = ax.annotate("Test 1", xy=(x[1], y[1]), xycoords="data", xytext=(x[1], 1.05), textcoords=("data", "axes fraction"), va="center", ha="left", arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle="->", color='b'))
arrow2 = ax.annotate("Test 2", xy=(1, 1), xycoords=ax.annotate('', xy=(x[2],y[2])), xytext=(30, 0), textcoords="offset points", va="center", ha="left", arrowprops=dict(arrowstyle="->"))
Output:
