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Questions tagged [plot-annotations]
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How to add bold annotated text to a plot
I want to make an annotated text in a plot using matplotlib. I have tried the following:
a=10.0
font=matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties()
font.set_weight('bold')
text(0,1,":.2f".format(a), fontproperties=font)
I have also tried:
a=10.0
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simona
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How to improve the label placement in scatter plot
I use matplotlib to plot a scatter chart:
And label the bubble using a transparent box according to the tip at How to annotate point on a scatter automatically placed arrow
Here is the code:
if show_annote:
for i in range(len(x)):
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bigbug
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How to understand Seaborn's heatmap annotation format
I am looking for a way to show "0.0045" as "0.45%" on seaboarn's heatmap by specifying the fmt keyword:
sns.heatmap(data, annot=True, fmt='??')
However, I did not find a list of format to use. Searching between different examples, I have seen "d",…
Lisa
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How to annotate point on a scatter automatically placed arrow
if I make a scatter plot with matplotlib:
plt.scatter(randn(100),randn(100))
# set x, y lims
plt.xlim([...])
plt.ylim([...])
I'd like to annotate a given point (x, y) with an arrow pointing to it and a label. I know this can be done with annotate,…
user248237
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How to add a footnote under the x-axis of a plot
I couldn't find the right function to add a footnote in my plot.
The footnote I want to have is something like an explanation of one item in the legend, but it is too long to put in the legend box. So, I'd like to add a ref number, e.g. [1], to the…
Flake
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Annotate Subplots in a Figure with A, B, C
When submitting papers to scientific journals one quite frequently needs to enumerate the different subplots of a figure with A, B, ... .
This sounds like a very common problem and I was trying to find an elegant way to do that automatically with…
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Drawing brackets over plot
How would I go about if I wanted to draw brackets over some parts of my plot like this :
At the moment I am adding them with powerpoint but I would like to do it entirely in python.
Anthony Lethuillier
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Indicating the statistically significant difference in bar graph
I use a bar graph to indicate the data of each group. Some of these bars differ significantly from each other. How can I indicate the significant difference in the bar plot?
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
menMeans = (5, 15, 30,…
imsc
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How to display percentage above grouped bar chart
The following are the pandas dataframe and the bar chart generated from it:
colors_list = ['#5cb85c','#5bc0de','#d9534f']
result.plot(kind='bar',figsize=(15,4),width = 0.8,color =…
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Seaborn Catplot set values over the bars
I plotted a catplot in seaborn like this
import seaborn as sns
import pandas as pd
data = {'year': [2016, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2013, 2014, 2015], 'geo_name': ['Michigan',…
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autoscale axes to include annotations
Does anyone know of an easy way to expand the plot area to include annotations? I have a figure where some labels are long and/or multiline strings, and rather than clipping these to the axes, I want to expand the axes to include the…
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Annotating ranges of data
How can I annotate a range of my data? E.g., say the data from x = 5 to x = 10 is larger than some cut-off, how could I indicate that on the graph. If I was annotating by hand, I would just draw a large bracket above the range and write my…
ari
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How to insert non overlapping text
I am trying to insert power flow results in a network plot created with matplotlib. Some buses are so close that labelling the names along with power flow results is proving to be a big headache because text overlap is making some portions…
amaity
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Remove annotation while keeping plot
I'm producing a series of scatterplots, where I keep most of the plot (besides the scatter plot) between each plot. This is done like so: Keeping map overlay between plots in matplotlib
Now I want to add annotation to the plot:
for j in…
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How to add significance bars and asterisks to boxplots
I'm looking for suggestions on how to add significance bars between boxes on a box plot and also have asterisks representing significance. I am using seaborn to create plots and I couldn't find any common methods for accomplishing this. Nothing…
Chris
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