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How do you change the size of figures drawn with matplotlib?
How do you change the size of figure drawn with matplotlib?
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Plot logarithmic axes with matplotlib in python
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 ...
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gnuplot vs Matplotlib
I've started on a project graphing Tomcat logs using gnuplot-py, specifically correlating particular requests with memory allocation and garbage collection. What is the
collective wisdom on ...
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Python, Matplotlib, subplot: How to set the axis range?
How can I set the y axis range of the second subplot to e.g. [0,1000] ?
The FFT plot of my data (a column in a text file) results in a (inf.?) spike so that the actual data is not visible.
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Matplotlib: How to put individual tags for a scatter plot
I am trying to do a scatter plot in Matplotlib and I couldn't find a way to add tags to the points. For example:
scatter1=plt.scatter(data1["x"], data1["y"], marker="o",
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How to change the font size on a matplotlib plot
How does one change the font size for all elements (ticks, labels, title) on a matplotlib plot?
I know how to change the tick label sizes, this is done with:
import matplotlib
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How to change legend size with matplotlib.pyplot
Simple question here: I'm just trying to get the size of my legend using matplotlib.pyplot to be smaller (ie, the text to be smaller). The code I'm using goes something like this:
plot.figure()
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How do I configure the behavior of the Qt4Agg backend?
In an earlier question I learned that the behavior on show() was dependent on the backend in use by matplotlib. At that time I was looking for a way to keep show() from deleting the drawing elements ...
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Generate a heatmap in MatPlotLib using a scatter data set
I have a set of X,Y data points (about 10k) that are easy to plot as a scatter plot but that I would like to represent as a heatmap.
I looked through the examples in MatPlotLib and they all seem to ...
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Text box in matplotlib?
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 ...
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change strength of antialiasing in matplotlib
Is it possible to increase the antialiasing in matplotlib?
I can still see some aliasing in my data, I tried several backends and it is still there. The antialiasing flag of the lines is set.
Here ...
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How do I tell matplotlib that I am done with a plot?
The following code plots two .ps files, but the second one contains both lines.
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.mlab as mlab
plt.subplot(111)
x = [1,10]
y = [30, ...
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Hiding axis text in matplotlib plots
I'm trying to plot a figure without tickmarks or numbers on either of the axes (I use axes in the traditional sense, not the matplotlib nomenclature!). An issue I have come across is where matplotlib ...
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making matplotlib graphs look like R by default?
Is there a way to make matplotlib behave identically to R, or almost like R, in terms of plotting defaults? For example R treats its axes pretty differently from matplotlib. The following histogram
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What is the best plotting library for Python? [closed]
What Python plotting library do you recommend?
It should be noted the following considerations:
is it cross-OS?
speed
how clean it's interface?
"prettyness" of the resulting plots
License
etc?
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