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How to display the value on horizontal bars

I generated a bar plot, how can I display the value of the bar on each bar? Current plot: What I am trying to get: My code: import os import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = [u'INFO', u'CUISINE', u'TYPE_OF_PLACE', u'DRINK',…
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Seaborn showing scientific notation in heatmap for 3-digit numbers

I'm creating a heatmap from a pandas pivot_table as below: table2 = pd.pivot_table(df,values='control',columns='Year',index='Region',aggfunc=np.sum) sns.heatmap(table2,annot=True,cmap='Blues') It creates a heat map as shown below. You can see the…
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Putting text in top left corner of matplotlib plot

How can I put text in the top left (or top right) corner of a matplotlib figure, e.g. where a top left legend would be, or on top of the plot but in the top left corner? E.g. if it's a plt.scatter(), then something that would be within the square…
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How to place inline labels in a line plot

In Matplotlib, it's not too tough to make a legend (example_legend(), below), but I think it's better style to put labels right on the curves being plotted (as in example_inline(), below). This can be very fiddly, because I have to specify…
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How do I use matplotlib autopct?

I'd like to create a matplotlib pie chart which has the value of each wedge written on top of the wedge. The documentation suggests I should use autopct to do this. autopct: [ None | format string | format function ] If not None, is a…
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Text box with line wrapping

Is it possible to display text in a box through Matplotlib, with automatic line breaks? By using pyplot.text(), I was only able to print multi-line text that flows beyond the boundaries of the window, which is annoying. The size of the lines is…
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automatically position text box in plot

Is there a way of telling pyplot.text() a location like you can with pyplot.legend()? Something like the legend argument would be excellent: plt.legend(loc="upper left") I am trying to label subplots with different axes using letters (e.g.…
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percent label position in pie chart

Is there a way to change the default position of the percent label in a matplotlib pie chart? Here is an example pie chart: Which I have created using: plt.pie(sizes, labels=labels, colors=colors, explode=explode, autopct='%1.0f%%') Now I don't…
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How to add percentages on top of grouped bars

Given the following count plot how do I place percentages on top of the bars? import seaborn as sns sns.set(style="darkgrid") titanic = sns.load_dataset("titanic") ax = sns.countplot(x="class", hue="who", data=titanic) For example for "First" I…
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How to space overlapping annotations

I want to annotate the bars in a graph with some text but if the bars are close together and have comparable height, the annotations are above ea. other and thus hard to read (the coordinates for the annotations were taken from the bar position and…
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How to put text outside of plots

I am plotting two time series and computing varies indices for them. How to write these indices for these plots outside the plot using annotation or text in python? Below is my code import matplotlib.pyplot as plt obs_graph=plt.plot(obs_df['cms'],…
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How does one insert statistical annotations (stars or p-values)

This seems like a trivial question, but I've been searching for a while and can't seem to find an answer. It also seems like something that should be a standard part of these packages. Does anyone know if there is a standard way to include…
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unique plot marker for each plot

I have a loop where i create some plots and I need unique marker for each plot. I think about creating function, which returns random symbol, and use it in my program in this way: for i in xrange(len(y)): plt.plot(x, y [i], randomMarker()) but…
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How to avoid overlapping of labels & autopct in a pie chart

My Python code is: values = [234, 64, 54,10, 0, 1, 0, 9, 2, 1, 7, 7] months = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul','Aug','Sep','Oct', 'Nov','Dec'] colors = ['yellowgreen', 'red', 'gold', 'lightskyblue', …
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Different font sizes in the same annotation of matplotlib

I need to annotate a pylab rectangle with few data lines - which are of different length. Searching through the matplotlib documentation, and Googling, I could not find a way to give different parts of an annotation different sizes. The following…
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