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How do I set the figure title and axes labels font size?

I am creating a figure in Matplotlib like this: from matplotlib import pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() plt.plot(data) fig.suptitle('test title') plt.xlabel('xlabel') plt.ylabel('ylabel') fig.savefig('test.jpg') I want to specify font sizes for…
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How to set the axis limits

I need help with setting the limits of y-axis on matplotlib. Here is the code that I tried, unsuccessfully. import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.figure(1, figsize = (8.5,11)) plt.suptitle('plot title') ax = [] aPlot = plt.subplot(321, axisbg = 'w',…
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How can I plot with 2 different y-axes?

I would like superimpose two scatter plots in R so that each set of points has its own (different) y-axis (i.e., in positions 2 and 4 on the figure) but the points appear superimposed on the same figure. Is it possible to do this with plot? Edit…
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Barchart with vertical ytick labels

I'm using matplotlib to generate a (vertical) barchart. The problem is my labels are rather long. Is there any way to display them vertically, either in the bar or above it or below it?
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seaborn heatmap y-axis reverse order

Have a look at this heatmap found in the seaborn heatmap documentation. Right now the y-axis starts with 9 at the bottom, and ends with 0 on top. Is there a way to turn this around, i.e. start with 0 at bottom and end with 9 at the top?
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Setting the same axis limits for all subplots

This problem seems simple enough, but I can't find a pythonic way to solve it. I have several (four) subplots that are supposed to have the same xlim and ylim. Iterating over all subplots à la f, axarr = plt.subplots(4) for x in range(n): …
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Fixing x axis scale and autoscale y axis

I would like to plot only part of the array, fixing the x part, but letting the y part autoscale. I tried as shown below, but it does not work. Any suggestions? import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as…
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yaxis range display using absolute values rather than offset values

I have the following range of numpy data (deltas of usec timestamps): array([ 4.312, 4.317, 4.316, 4.32 , 4.316, 4.316, 4.319, 4.317, 4.317, 4.316, 4.318, 4.316, 4.318, 4.316, 4.318, 4.317, 4.317, 4.317, 4.316, 4.317, …
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How to plot on secondary y-Axis with plotly express

How do I utilize plotly.express to plot multiple lines on two yaxis out of one Pandas dataframe? I find this very useful to plot all columns containing a specific substring: fig = px.line(df, y=df.filter(regex="Linear").columns,…
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Combining Bar and Line chart (double axis) in ggplot2

I have double-y-axis chart made in Excel. In Excel it requires only basic skills. What I'd like to do is to replicate this chart using the ggplot2 library in R. I have already done this, but I need to plot Response on 2nd-y-axis. I enclose…
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Aligning y-ticks to the left

I have tick labels of variable length, and I want to align them to the left (i.e. to have a space between the shorter ones and the y axis). Is there any reasonable way to do this? Using horizontal alignment 'left' aligns them to the left, but they…
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Adding second Y axis on ggplotly

I have created the following dataframe object and graph using plotly and ggplot library(ggplot2) library(plotly) rdate <- function(x, min = paste0(format(Sys.Date(), '%Y'), '-01-01'), max = paste0(format(Sys.Date(),…
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How to plot without extending axis limits

I'm trying to draw on an existing axis without extending or modifying its limits. For example: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt xy = np.random.randn(100, 2) plt.scatter(xy[:,0], xy[:,1]) Makes a fine plot with well-fitting axis…
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Set ylim on subplot secondary y-axis

I want to plot the data in subplots using secondary axes. I can set the ylim but it affects only the secondary y-axis (on the right side). I can't find a way to control the ylim on the primary y-axis (on the left side). I'd like the primary y-axis…
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How to reverse secondary continuous_y_axis in ggplot2

I have a dataset I would like to graph with two Y-axes. The would like to reverse the secondary Y-axis so that it runs -60 to -40. The primary Y-axis should run 300-550. I cannot figure out how to reverse the secondary Y-axis without reversing the…
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