I am trying to make a scatter plot and annotate data points with different numbers from a list.
So, for example, I want to plot y vs x and annotate with corresponding numbers from n.
I’m trying to stop annotation text overlapping in my graphs. The method suggested in the accepted answer to Matplotlib overlapping annotations looks extremely promising, however is for bar graphs. I’m having trouble converting the “axis” methods over to what I want to do, and I don’t understand how the text lines up.
I searched for ages (hours which is like ages) to find the answer to a really annoying (seemingly basic) problem, and because I cant find a question that quite fits the answer I am posting a question and answering it in the hope that it will save someone else the huge amount of time I just spent on my noobie plotting skills.