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flyunicorn
flyunicorn

Reputation: 31

How to set x axis tick width and label

The x axis is year-month of date of two years. Hence 24 values. Because the relplot function only allows numeric type for x and y axis. So the x axis is all clustered to two ends since 201801 to 201912 is not equally spaced. How I could make it equally spaced with correct label like this: 201801,201802....201912. (24 date values)

import seaborn as sns
sns.set(style="ticks")
palette = dict(zip(rel['Sub-Category'].unique(),
                   sns.color_palette("rocket_r", 17)))
r=sns.relplot(x='YearMonth', y="Profit",
            hue="Sub-Category", col="Category",
            #size="Year", size_order=["2019", "2018"], 
            palette=palette,
            height=5, aspect=.7, facet_kws=dict(sharex=True),
            kind="line", legend="full", data=rel)
r.set(yticks=[i for i in range(int(min(rel['Profit'])), int(max(rel['Profit'])) + 50, 500)],
     xticks=[i for i in rel.YearMonth.unique()])

sample output

Upvotes: 2

Views: 679

Answers (1)

baccandr
baccandr

Reputation: 1130

As described in the comments you just have to convert your YearMonth column into a datetime:

# Input data
df = pd.DataFrame({'YearMonth': ['2018-01','2018-01','2018-02','2018-04','2018-03','2018-05'],
                   'Category':['Clothing','Furniture','Clothing','Clothing','Furniture','Clothing'], 
                   'Sub-Category':['Henkerchief','Table','Skirt','Henkerchief','Table','Skirt'],
                   'Profit':[16,40,110,33,44,55]})

# Create datetime column
df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['YearMonth'], format = '%Y-%m')

# Plot
sns.set(style="ticks")
palette = dict(zip(df['Sub-Category'].unique(),
                   sns.color_palette("rocket_r", 17)))
r=sns.relplot(x='date', y="Profit",
            hue="Sub-Category", col="Category",
            palette=palette,
            height=5, aspect=.7, facet_kws=dict(sharex=True),
            kind="line", legend="full", data=df)

# Adjust xticks
xticks = pd.date_range(start='2017-12',end='2018-05',
                       freq='MS',closed='right')
r.set(xticks=xticks)

This is the output figure: enter image description here

Update: If you want to rotate the xtick labels you can use:

for ax in r.axes.ravel():
    ax.set_xticklabels(ax.get_xticklabels(), rotation=45)

Upvotes: 2

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