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Changing the tick frequency on the x or y axis

I am trying to fix how python plots my data. Say: x = [0, 5, 9, 10, 15] y = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] matplotlib.pyplot.plot(x, y) matplotlib.pyplot.show() The x axis' ticks are plotted in intervals of 5. Is there a way to make it show intervals of 1?
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Plot logarithmic axes

I want to plot a graph with one logarithmic axis using matplotlib. I've been reading the docs, but can't figure out the syntax. I know that it's probably something simple like 'scale=linear' in the plot arguments, but I can't seem to get it…
Jim
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Modify tick label text

I want to make some modifications to a few selected tick labels in a plot. For example, if I do: label = axes.yaxis.get_major_ticks()[2].label label.set_fontsize(size) label.set_rotation('vertical') the font size and the orientation of the tick…
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Change grid interval and specify tick labels

I am trying to plot counts in gridded plots, but I haven't been able to figure out how to go about it. I want: to have dotted grids at an interval of 5; to have major tick labels only every 20; for the ticks to be outside the plot; and to have…
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how to turn on minor ticks only on y axis

How can I turn the minor ticks only on y axis on a linear vs linear plot? When I use the function minor_ticks_on to turn minor ticks on, they appear on both x and y axis.
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Format axis offset-values to whole numbers or specific number

I have a matplotlib figure which I am plotting data that is always referred to as nanoseconds (1e-9). On the y-axis, if I have data that is tens of nanoseconds, ie. 44e-9, the value on the axis shows as 4.4 with a +1e-8 as an offset. Is there…
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How to force integer tick labels

My python script uses matplotlib to plot a 2D "heat map" of an x, y, z dataset. My x- and y-values represent amino acid residues in a protein and can therefore only be integers. When I zoom into the plot, it looks like this: As I said, float values…
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Arguments for LogLocator

In MatPlotLib, I want to plot a graph with a linear x-axis and a logarithmic y-axis. For the x-axis, there should be labels at multiples of 4, and minor ticks at multiples of 1. I have been able to do this using the MultipleLocator class. However, I…
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How to add minor ticks

I want to add minor ticks on the y axis. I tried several methods but they all seem to not work. The minor ticks just won't show up. Here is my code. sns.set_style('whitegrid') dd.plot(x='Date', y='Min', lw = 4, figsize=(50,30), color = 'red') …
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tick_params doesn't work properly for 2nd y-axis

I am designing a GUI in which whenever I click a button, the figure inside the GUI will be updated. This figure contains two y-axes with a common x-axis. I am using twinx function inside matplotlib. Everything is working as expected, except the…
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Setting xtick labels in of an sns.heatmap subplot

I am trying to put 3 subplots of sns.heatmap with custom xticklabels and yticklabels. You can see that the labels I enter overlaps with some default labels. How to avoid this? glue = sns.load_dataset("glue").pivot("Model", "Task",…
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Is a there a step value parameter in sns.scatterplot( ) function?

I used sns.scatterplot() function to find relationship between City mileage and price of cars dataset but in the y axis the limits are all collapsed and I couldn't find the proper limit in y axis. I tried using plt.ylim(0,700000,100000) but that…
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Increase the number of minor ticks

When I turn on minor ticks in a plot with something like plt.minorticks_on(), I often want to have a larger number of minor ticks. Is there a simple method to achieve that?
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Rotating 2nd y-axis tick labels

I need to rotate the 2nd y-axis ticklabel and add a label for this axis as well in the figure below import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.lines as mlines import matplotlib.transforms as mtransforms fig, ax1 =…
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Plotly not saving tick format correctly

I am building a figure with 2 yaxis (yaxis1 and yaxis2). Both of the yaxis are logarithmic, but the yaxis2 has specific tick formatting, with tickmode = 'array'. The figure appears fine in my Jupyter Notebook, but not when I save it as .pdf, .png,…
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