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0 A common problem in making plots, say a barplot or boxplot with a number of groups is that, names of the groups on x-axis label often overlap with each other. Till now, one of the solutions to avoid overlapping text x-axis is to swap x and y axis with coord_flip() and make a horizontal barplot or boxplot.
Matplotlib x-axis label overlap In matplotlib, we have a method setp() that is used to set the rotation and alignment attributes of tick labels to avoid overlapping. To get ticklabels, we use the plt. setp() and get.
With matplotlib version 3.3. 0, the matplotlib functions set_xlabel and set_ylabel have a new parameter “loc” that can help adjust the positions of axis labels. For the x-axis label, it supports the values 'left', 'center', or 'right' to place the label towards left/center/right.
use labelpad parameter:
pl.xlabel("...", labelpad=20)
or set it after:
ax.xaxis.labelpad = 20
If the variable ax.xaxis._autolabelpos = True, matplotlib sets the label position in function _update_label_position in axis.py according to (some excerpts):
bboxes, bboxes2 = self._get_tick_bboxes(ticks_to_draw, renderer)
bbox = mtransforms.Bbox.union(bboxes)
bottom = bbox.y0
x, y = self.label.get_position()
self.label.set_position((x, bottom - self.labelpad * self.figure.dpi / 72.0))
You can set the label position independently of the ticks by using:
ax.xaxis.set_label_coords(x0, y0)
that sets _autolabelpos to False or as mentioned above by changing the labelpad parameter.
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