Format y axis as percent
I have an existing plot that was created with pandas like this:
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find length of sequences of identical values in a numpy array (run length encoding)
In a pylab program (which could probably be a matlab program as well) I have a numpy array of numbers representing distances: d[t] is the distance at time t (and the timespan of my data is len(d) time units).
Adding a legend to PyPlot in Matplotlib in the simplest manner possible
TL;DR -> How can one create a legend for a line graph in Matplotlib‘s PyPlot without creating any extra variables?
Heatmap in matplotlib with pcolor?
I’d like to make a heatmap like this (shown on FlowingData):
How to draw intersecting planes?
I want to use matplotlib to draw more or less the figure I attached below, which includes the two intersecting planes with the right amount of transparency indicating their relative orientations, and the circles and vectors in the two planes projected in 2D.
Aligning rotated xticklabels with their respective xticks
Check the x axis of the figure below. How can I move the labels a bit to the left so that they align with their respective ticks?
matplotlib Legend Markers Only Once
I often plot a point on a matplotlib plot with:
Saving a figure after invoking pyplot.show() results in an empty file
The following example code generates a simple plot, then saves it to ‘fig1.pdf’, then displays it, then saves it again to ‘fig2.pdf’. The first image looks as expected, but the second one is blank (contains a white square). What’s actually going on here? The line plt.show() apparently messes something up, but I can’t figure out what/how!
matplotlib Axes.plot() vs pyplot.plot()
What is the difference between the Axes.plot() and pyplot.plot() methods? Does one use another as a subroutine?
A tool to convert MATLAB code to Python
I have a bunch of MATLAB code from my MS thesis which I now want to convert to Python (using numpy/scipy and matplotlib) and distribute as open-source. I know the similarity between MATLAB and Python scientific libraries, and converting them manually will be not more than a fortnight (provided that I work towards it every … Read more