在x轴下修改杂乱和重叠日期标签的最优雅方法是什么？ （Seaborn，barplot）

Question

df（Pandas DataFrame）有两列：Date（作为datetime64）和Amount（作为float）。

我使用条形图绘制Amount列中的值与时间的关系：

sns.barplot(x="Date", y="Amount", data=df)
plt.show()

然而，日期标签是一个可怕的混乱（见图）。在熊猫中处理这个问题的优雅方法是什么？我正在考虑从标签上删除月份和年份，或者将标签旋转90度。这些将如何完成，还是有更好的选择？谢谢。

Answer 1

我会做两个：旋转你的xlabels并只使用日期：

import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# dummy data:
df = pd.DataFrame({'Date':pd.to_datetime(['1999-12-12', '2000-12-12', '2001-12-12']),'Amount':[1,2,3]})

sns.barplot(x="Date", y="Amount", data=df)
# use the original locations of your xticks, and only the date for your label
# rotate the labels 90 degrees using the rotation argument
plt.xticks(plt.xticks()[0], df.Date.dt.date, rotation=90)
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

Answer 2

另一个解决方案，如果你有大量的日期，并希望以更稀疏的间隔标记它们;

import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates

# dummy data:
df = pd.DataFrame({'Date':pd.to_datetime(['1999-12-12', '2000-12-12', '2001-12-12',
                                          '2002-12-12', '2003-12-12', '2004-12-12',
                                          '2005-12-12','2006-12-12', '2007-12-12', '2008-12-12']),
                                          'Amount':[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]})

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
sns.barplot(x="Date", y="Amount", data=df, ax=ax)

# set the frequency for labelling the xaxis
freq = int(2)

# set the xlabels as the datetime data for the given labelling frequency,
# also use only the date for the label
ax.set_xticklabels(df.iloc[::freq].Date.dt.date)
# set the xticks at the same frequency as the xlabels
xtix = ax.get_xticks()
ax.set_xticks(xtix[::freq])
# nicer label format for dates
fig.autofmt_xdate()

plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

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同样值得考虑使用seaborn plot默认值，并将日期放在yaxis上以便于阅读，但这更符合个人喜好。

import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.dates as mdates

# set the seaborn asthetics
sns.set()

# dummy data:
df = pd.DataFrame({'Date':pd.to_datetime(['1999-12-12', '2000-12-12', '2001-12-12',
                                          '2002-12-12', '2003-12-12', '2004-12-12',
                                          '2005-12-12','2006-12-12', '2007-12-12', '2008-12-12']),
                                          'Amount':[1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10]})

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
# plot with a horizontal orientation
sns.barplot(y="Date", x="Amount", data=df, ax=ax, orient='h')

# set the frequency for labelling the yaxis
freq = int(2)

# set the ylabels as the datetime data for the given labelling frequency,
# also use only the date for the label
ax.set_yticklabels(df.iloc[::freq].Date.dt.date)
# set the yticks at the same frequency as the ylabels
ytix = ax.get_yticks()
ax.set_yticks(ytix[::freq])

plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

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