labels

[casraz]

when having more than about 25 lables on the x-axis (say 50) is not handled properly(overlapping lables) or is there a command to fix it ?

[RyanGladstone]

Hi @casraz

Were you ever able to address this issue? I'm also having trouble wrangling the labels at the moment.

Thanks,

Ryan

[olgabot]

Hi! Sorry about leaving this for a while. Are you thinking a larger figure size or smaller font size, or a combination of both?

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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Ryan Gladstone notifications@github.comwrote:

Hi @casraz https://github.com/casraz

Were you ever able to address this issue? I'm also having trouble wrangling the labels at the moment.

Thanks,

Ryan

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/issues/14#issuecomment-32292537 .

[casraz]

Hi . . . well, why not both ? lets say one has 50 different data sets and wants to put 50 box plots on a figure. that would be nice . . . however, when you have many boxes, then the visuals could become less effective unless the boundary of each box has the right thickness and colour.

cheers

On 2014-01-14, at 3:03 PM, Olga Botvinnik notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi! Sorry about leaving this for a while. Are you thinking a larger figure size or smaller font size, or a combination of both?

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Olga Botvinnik PhD Program in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Gene Yeo Laboratory | Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine University of California, San Diego olgabotvinnik.com blog.olgabotvinnik.com github.com/olgabot

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Ryan Gladstone notifications@github.comwrote:

Hi @casraz https://github.com/casraz

Were you ever able to address this issue? I'm also having trouble wrangling the labels at the moment.

Thanks,

Ryan

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/issues/14#issuecomment-32292537 .

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[olgabot]

I just worked on this feature (https://github.com/olgabot/prettyplotlib/compare/master...pcolormesh_labels .. ignore the fact that it's called pcolormesh labels for now). Now when you have >5 items, it auto-rotates the labels by 45 degrees:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/gist/olgabot/8570414

How does it look to you?

[mooreed]

Unrelated to ticklabels, but still in regards to labels, namely axis labels: How would one apply axis labels using ppl vs the corresponding similar code shown below to print out horizontal and vertical axis labels using ugly .plot( ) ??

 gph1 = df1['Traffic Total'][:30].plot(title="Traffic Generated vs Top 30 Device Types")
 gph1.set_xlabel("Uniq Device Types Included ")
 gph1.set_ylabel("Traffic (# Records)")

I have tried the following which seemed reasonable, but I am operating on a list type:

 ppl_gph1 = ppl.plot(
      df1.index.values[:30], 
      df1['Traffic Total'][:30], 
      label="Traffic Totals")

 ppl_gph1.set_title("Title")

Any help displaying a Title and axis labels would be greatly appreciated for a charting noob. Looking for something like this... but prettier

[olgabot]

Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately, I no longer have the bandwidth to maintain prettyplotlib. I recommend using seaborn. Using seaborn, to get the prettyplotlib style, do:

import seaborn as sns
sns.set(style='ticks', palette='Set2')

And to remove "chartjunk", do:

sns.despine()

If you have discrete pull requests, I will accept them, but I personally will no longer fix bugs.

If you are a biological scientist looking for ways to analyze your big-ish (20+ samples) data, check out my main project, flotilla.