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I am looking to edit the formatting of the dates on the x-axis. The picture below shows how they appear on my bar graph by default. I would like to remove the repetition of 'Dec' and '2012' and just have the actual date numbers along the x-axis.
Any suggestions as to how I can do this?
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Create a figure and a set of subplots using subplots() method. Plot the dataframe using plot method, with df's (Step 1) time and speed. To edit the date formatting from %d-%m-%d to %d:%m%d, we can use set_major_formatter() method.
Using the DateFormatter module from matplotlib, you can specify the format that you want to use for the date using the syntax: "%X %X" where each %X element represents a part of the date as follows: %Y - 4 digit year with upper case Y. %y - 2 digit year with lower case y. %m - month as a number with lower case m.
To plot the line chart, use the plot() method. To rotate the ticks at the x-axis, use the plt. xticks() method and pass the rotation argument to it.
In short:
import matplotlib.dates as mdates myFmt = mdates.DateFormatter('%d') ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(myFmt) Many examples on the matplotlib website. The one I most commonly use is here
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