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I have a plot that looks as follows:
I want to put labels for both the lineplot and the markers in red. However the legend is not appearning because its the plot is taking out its space.
Update
it turns out I cannot put several strings in plt.legend()
I made the figure bigger by using the following:
fig = plt.gcf()
fig.set_size_inches(18.5, 10.5)
However now I have only one label in the legend, with the marker appearing on the lineplot while I rather want two: one for the marker alone and another for the line alone:
Updated code:
plt.plot(range(len(y)), y, '-bD', c='blue', markerfacecolor='red', markeredgecolor='k', markevery=rare_cases, label='%s' % target_var_name)
fig = plt.gcf()
fig.set_size_inches(18.5, 10.5)
# changed this over here
plt.legend()
plt.savefig(output_folder + fig_name)
plt.close()
What you want to do (have two labels for a single object) is not completely impossible but it's MUCH easier to plot separately the line and the rare values, e.g.
# boilerplate
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
# synthesize some data
N = 501
t = np.linspace(0, 10, N)
s = np.sin(np.pi*t)
rare = np.zeros(N, dtype=bool); rare[:20]=True; np.random.shuffle(rare)
plt.plot(t, s, label='Curve')
plt.scatter(t[rare], s[rare], label='rare')
plt.legend()
plt.show()
Update
[...] it turns out I cannot put several strings in plt.legend()
Well, you can, as long as ① the several strings are in an iterable (a tuple or a list) and ② the number of strings (i.e., labels) equals the number of artists (i.e., thingies) in the plot.
plt.legend(('a', 'b', 'c'))
Background:
I have a list_of_x_and_y_list that contains x and y values which looks like:
[[(44800, 14888), (132000, 12500), (40554, 12900)], [(None, 193788), (101653, 78880), (3866, 160000)]]
I have another data_name_list ["data_a","data_b"] so that
"data_a" = [(44800, 14888), (132000, 12500), (40554, 12900)]
"data_b" = [(None, 193788), (101653, 78880), (3866, 160000)]
The len of list_of_x_and_y_list / or len of data_name_list is > 20.
Question:
How can I create a scatter plot for each item (being the same colour) in the data_name_list?
What I have tried:
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)
ax = plt.axes(facecolor='#FFFFFF')
prop_cycle = plt.rcParams['axes.prop_cycle']
colors = prop_cycle.by_key()['color']
print(list_of_x_and_y_list)
for x_and_y_list, data_name, color in zip(list_of_x_and_y_list, data_name_list, colors):
for x_and_y in x_and_y_list,:
print(x_and_y)
x, y = x_and_y
ax.scatter(x, y, label=data_name, color=color) # "label=data_name" creates
# a huge list as a legend!
# :(
plt.title('Matplot scatter plot')
plt.legend(loc=2)
file_name = "3kstc.png"
fig.savefig(file_name, dpi=fig.dpi)
print("Generated: {}".format(file_name))
The Problem:
The legend appears to be a very long list, which I don't know how to rectify:
Relevant Research:
Matplotlib scatterplot
Scatter Plot
Scatter plot in Python using matplotlib
The reason you get a long repeated list as a legend is because you are providing each point as a separate series, as matplotlib does not automatically group your data based on the labels.
A quick fix is to iterate over the list and zip together the x-values and the y-values of each series as two tuples, so that the x tuple contains all the x-values and the y tuple the y-values.
Then you can feed these tuples to the plt.plot method together with the labels.
I felt that the names list_of_x_and_y_list were uneccessary long and complicated, so in my code I've used shorter names.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
data_series = [[(44800, 14888), (132000, 12500), (40554, 12900)],
[(None, 193788), (101653, 78880), (3866, 160000)]]
data_names = ["data_a","data_b"]
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)
ax = plt.axes(facecolor='#FFFFFF')
prop_cycle = plt.rcParams['axes.prop_cycle']
colors = prop_cycle.by_key()['color']
for data, data_name, color in zip(data_series, data_names, colors):
x,y = zip(*data)
ax.scatter(x, y, label=data_name, color=color)
plt.title('Matplot scatter plot')
plt.legend(loc=1)
To only get one entry per data_name, you should add data_name only once as a label. The rest of the calls should go with label=None.
The simplest you can achieve this using the current code, is to set data_name to None at the end of the loop:
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from random import randint
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)
ax.set_facecolor('#FFFFFF')
# create some random data, suppose the sublists have different lengths
list_of_x_and_y_list = [[(randint(1000, 4000), randint(2000, 5000)) for col in range(randint(2, 10))]
for row in range(10)]
data_name_list = list('abcdefghij')
colors = plt.rcParams['axes.prop_cycle'].by_key()['color']
for x_and_y_list, data_name, color in zip(list_of_x_and_y_list, data_name_list, colors):
for x_and_y in x_and_y_list :
x, y = x_and_y
ax.scatter(x, y, label=data_name, color=color)
data_name = None
plt.legend(loc=2)
plt.show()
Some things can be simplified, making the code 'more pythonic', for example:
for x_and_y in x_and_y_list :
x, y = x_and_y
can be written as:
for x, y in x_and_y_list:
Another issue, is that with a lot of data calling scatter for every point could be rather slow. All the x and y belonging to the same list can be plotted together. For example using list comprehension:
for x_and_y_list, data_name, color in zip(list_of_x_and_y_list, data_name_list, colors):
xs = [x for x, y in x_and_y_list]
ys = [y for x, y in x_and_y_list]
ax.scatter(xs, ys, label=data_name, color=color)
scatter could even get a list of colors per point, but plotting all the points in one go, wouldn't allow for labels per data_name.
Very often, numpy is used to store numerical data. This has some advantages, such as vectorization for quick calculations. With numpy the code would look like:
import numpy as np
for x_and_y_list, data_name, color in zip(list_of_x_and_y_list, data_name_list, colors):
xys = np.array(x_and_y_list)
ax.scatter(xys[:,0], xys[:,1], label=data_name, color=color)
Before I start I want to say that I've tried follow this and this post on the same problem however they are doing it with imshow heatmaps unlike 2d histogram like I'm doing.
Here is my code(the actual data has been replaced by randomly generated data but the gist is the same):
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
def subplots_hist_2d(x_data, y_data, x_labels, y_labels, titles):
fig, a = plt.subplots(2, 2)
a = a.ravel()
for idx, ax in enumerate(a):
image = ax.hist2d(x_data[idx], y_data[idx], bins=50, range=[[-2, 2],[-2, 2]])
ax.set_title(titles[idx], fontsize=12)
ax.set_xlabel(x_labels[idx])
ax.set_ylabel(y_labels[idx])
ax.set_aspect("equal")
cb = fig.colorbar(image[idx])
cb.set_label("Intensity", rotation=270)
# pad = how big overall pic is
# w_pad = how separate they're left to right
# h_pad = how separate they're top to bottom
plt.tight_layout(pad=-1, w_pad=-10, h_pad=0.5)
x1, y1 = np.random.uniform(-2, 2, 10000), np.random.uniform(-2, 2, 10000)
x2, y2 = np.random.uniform(-2, 2, 10000), np.random.uniform(-2, 2, 10000)
x3, y3 = np.random.uniform(-2, 2, 10000), np.random.uniform(-2, 2, 10000)
x4, y4 = np.random.uniform(-2, 2, 10000), np.random.uniform(-2, 2, 10000)
x_data = [x1, x2, x3, x4]
y_data = [y1, y2, y3, y4]
x_labels = ["x1", "x2", "x3", "x4"]
y_labels = ["y1", "y2", "y3", "y4"]
titles = ["1", "2", "3", "4"]
subplots_hist_2d(x_data, y_data, x_labels, y_labels, titles)
And this is what it's generating:
So now my problem is that I could not for the life of me make the colorbar apply for all 4 of the histograms. Also for some reason the bottom right histogram seems to behave weirdly compared with the others. In the links that I've posted their methods don't seem to use a = a.ravel() and I'm only using it here because it's the only way that allows me to plot my 4 histograms as subplots. Help?
EDIT:
Thomas Kuhn your new method actually solved all of my problem until I put my labels down and tried to use plt.tight_layout() to sort out the overlaps. It seems that if I put down the specific parameters in plt.tight_layout(pad=i, w_pad=0, h_pad=0) then the colorbar starts to misbehave. I'll now explain my problem.
I have made some changes to your new method so that it suits what I want, like this
def test_hist_2d(x_data, y_data, x_labels, y_labels, titles):
nrows, ncols = 2, 2
fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows, ncols, sharex=True, sharey=True)
##produce the actual data and compute the histograms
mappables=[]
for (i, j), ax in np.ndenumerate(axes):
H, xedges, yedges = np.histogram2d(x_data[i][j], y_data[i][j], bins=50, range=[[-2, 2],[-2, 2]])
ax.set_title(titles[i][j], fontsize=12)
ax.set_xlabel(x_labels[i][j])
ax.set_ylabel(y_labels[i][j])
ax.set_aspect("equal")
mappables.append(H)
##the min and max values of all histograms
vmin = np.min(mappables)
vmax = np.max(mappables)
##second loop for visualisation
for ax, H in zip(axes.ravel(), mappables):
im = ax.imshow(H,vmin=vmin, vmax=vmax, extent=[-2,2,-2,2])
##colorbar using solution from linked question
fig.colorbar(im,ax=axes.ravel())
plt.show()
# plt.tight_layout
# plt.tight_layout(pad=i, w_pad=0, h_pad=0)
Now if I try to generate my data, in this case:
phi, cos_theta = get_angles(runs)
detector_x1, detector_y1, smeared_x1, smeared_y1 = detection_vectorised(1.5, cos_theta, phi)
detector_x2, detector_y2, smeared_x2, smeared_y2 = detection_vectorised(1, cos_theta, phi)
detector_x3, detector_y3, smeared_x3, smeared_y3 = detection_vectorised(0.5, cos_theta, phi)
detector_x4, detector_y4, smeared_x4, smeared_y4 = detection_vectorised(0, cos_theta, phi)
Here detector_x, detector_y, smeared_x, smeared_y are all lists of data point
So now I put them into 2x2 lists so that they can be unpacked suitably by my plotting function, as such:
data_x = [[detector_x1, detector_x2], [detector_x3, detector_x4]]
data_y = [[detector_y1, detector_y2], [detector_y3, detector_y4]]
x_labels = [["x positions(m)", "x positions(m)"], ["x positions(m)", "x positions(m)"]]
y_labels = [["y positions(m)", "y positions(m)"], ["y positions(m)", "y positions(m)"]]
titles = [["0.5m from detector", "1.0m from detector"], ["1.5m from detector", "2.0m from detector"]]
I now run my code with
test_hist_2d(data_x, data_y, x_labels, y_labels, titles)
with just plt.show() turned on, it gives this:
which is great because data and visual wise, it is exactly what I want i.e. the colormap corresponds to all 4 histograms. However, since the labels are overlapping with the titles, I thought I would just run the same thing but this time with plt.tight_layout(pad=a, w_pad=b, h_pad=c) hoping that I would be able to adjust the overlapping labels problem. However this time it doesn't matter how I change the numbers a, b and c, I always get my colorbar lying on the second column of graphs, like this:
Now changing a only makes the overall subplots bigger or smaller, and the best I could do was to adjust it with plt.tight_layout(pad=-10, w_pad=-15, h_pad=0), which looks like this
So it seems that whatever your new method is doing, it made the whole plot lost its adjustability. Your solution, as wonderful as it is at solving one problem, in return, created another. So what would be the best thing to do here?
Edit 2:
Using fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows, ncols, sharex=True, sharey=True, constrained_layout=True) along with plt.show() gives
As you can see there's still a vertical gap between the columns of subplots for which not even using plt.subplots_adjust() can get rid of.
Edit:
As has been noted in the comments, the biggest problem here is actually to make the colorbar for many histograms meaningful, as ax.hist2d will always scale the histogram data it receives from numpy. It may therefore be best to first calculated the 2d histogram data using numpy and then use again imshow to visualise it. This way, also the solutions of the linked question can be applied. To make the problem with the normalisation more visible, I put some effort into producing some qualitatively different 2d histograms using scipy.stats.multivariate_normal, which shows how the height of the histogram can change quite dramatically even though the number of samples is the same in each figure.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib import gridspec as gs
from scipy.stats import multivariate_normal
##opening figure and axes
nrows=3
ncols=3
fig, axes = plt.subplots(nrows,ncols)
##generate some random data for the distributions
means = np.random.rand(nrows,ncols,2)
sigmas = np.random.rand(nrows,ncols,2)
thetas = np.random.rand(nrows,ncols)*np.pi*2
##produce the actual data and compute the histograms
mappables=[]
for mean,sigma,theta in zip( means.reshape(-1,2), sigmas.reshape(-1,2), thetas.reshape(-1)):
##the data (only cosmetics):
c, s = np.cos(theta), np.sin(theta)
rot = np.array(((c,-s), (s, c)))
cov = rot#np.diag(sigma)#rot.T
rv = multivariate_normal(mean,cov)
data = rv.rvs(size = 10000)
##the 2d histogram from numpy
H,xedges,yedges = np.histogram2d(data[:,0], data[:,1], bins=50, range=[[-2, 2],[-2, 2]])
mappables.append(H)
##the min and max values of all histograms
vmin = np.min(mappables)
vmax = np.max(mappables)
##second loop for visualisation
for ax,H in zip(axes.ravel(),mappables):
im = ax.imshow(H,vmin=vmin, vmax=vmax, extent=[-2,2,-2,2])
##colorbar using solution from linked question
fig.colorbar(im,ax=axes.ravel())
plt.show()
This code produces a figure like this:
Old Answer:
One way to solve your problem is to generate the space for your colorbar explicitly. You can use a GridSpec instance to define how wide your colorbar should be. Below your subplots_hist_2d() function with a few modifications. Note that your use of tight_layout() shifted the colorbar into a funny place, hence the replacement. If you want the plots closer to each other, I'd rather recommend to play with the aspect ratio of the figure.
def subplots_hist_2d(x_data, y_data, x_labels, y_labels, titles):
## fig, a = plt.subplots(2, 2)
fig = plt.figure()
g = gs.GridSpec(nrows=2, ncols=3, width_ratios=[1,1,0.05])
a = [fig.add_subplot(g[n,m]) for n in range(2) for m in range(2)]
cax = fig.add_subplot(g[:,2])
## a = a.ravel()
for idx, ax in enumerate(a):
image = ax.hist2d(x_data[idx], y_data[idx], bins=50, range=[[-2, 2],[-2, 2]])
ax.set_title(titles[idx], fontsize=12)
ax.set_xlabel(x_labels[idx])
ax.set_ylabel(y_labels[idx])
ax.set_aspect("equal")
## cb = fig.colorbar(image[-1],ax=a)
cb = fig.colorbar(image[-1], cax=cax)
cb.set_label("Intensity", rotation=270)
# pad = how big overall pic is
# w_pad = how separate they're left to right
# h_pad = how separate they're top to bottom
## plt.tight_layout(pad=-1, w_pad=-10, h_pad=0.5)
fig.tight_layout()
Using this modified function, I get the following output:
I have a data that looks like a sigmoidal plot but flipped relative to the vertical line.
But the plot is a result of plotting 1D data instead of some sort of function.
My goal is to find the x value when the y value is at 50%. As you can see, there is no data point when y is exactly at 50%.
Interpolate comes to my mind. But I'm not sure if interpolate enable me to find the x value when the y value is 50%. So my question is 1) can you use interpolate to find the x when the y is 50%? or 2)do you need to fit the data to some sort of a function?
Below is what I currently have in my code
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
my_x = [4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58,60,62,64,66]
my_y_raw=np.array([0.99470977497817203, 0.99434995886145172, 0.98974611323163653, 0.961630837657524, 0.99327633558441175, 0.99338952769251909, 0.99428263292577534, 0.98690514212711611, 0.99111667721533181, 0.99149418924880861, 0.99133773062680464, 0.99143506380003499, 0.99151080464011454, 0.99268261743308517, 0.99289757252812316, 0.99100207861144063, 0.99157171773324027, 0.99112571824824358, 0.99031608691035722, 0.98978104266076905, 0.989782674787969, 0.98897835092187614, 0.98517540405423909, 0.98308943666187076, 0.96081810781994603, 0.85563541881892147, 0.61570811548079107, 0.33076276040577052, 0.14655134838124245, 0.076853147122142126, 0.035831324928136087, 0.021344669212790181])
my_y=my_y_raw/np.max(my_y_raw)
plt.plot(my_x, my_y,color='k', markersize=40)
plt.scatter(my_x,my_y,marker='*',label="myplot", color='k', edgecolor='k', linewidth=1,facecolors='none',s=50)
plt.legend(loc="lower left")
plt.xlim([4,102])
plt.show()
Using SciPy
The most straightforward way to do the interpolation is to use the SciPy interpolate.interp1d function. SciPy is closely related to NumPy and you may already have it installed. The advantage to interp1d is that it can sort the data for you. This comes at the cost of somewhat funky syntax. In many interpolation functions it is assumed that you are trying to interpolate a y value from an x value. These functions generally need the "x" values to be monotonically increasing. In your case, we swap the normal sense of x and y. The y values have an outlier as #Abhishek Mishra has pointed out. In the case of your data, you are lucky and you can get away with the the leaving the outlier in.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.interpolate import interp1d
my_x = [4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,
48,50,52,54,56,58,60,62,64,66]
my_y_raw=np.array([0.99470977497817203, 0.99434995886145172,
0.98974611323163653, 0.961630837657524, 0.99327633558441175,
0.99338952769251909, 0.99428263292577534, 0.98690514212711611,
0.99111667721533181, 0.99149418924880861, 0.99133773062680464,
0.99143506380003499, 0.99151080464011454, 0.99268261743308517,
0.99289757252812316, 0.99100207861144063, 0.99157171773324027,
0.99112571824824358, 0.99031608691035722, 0.98978104266076905,
0.989782674787969, 0.98897835092187614, 0.98517540405423909,
0.98308943666187076, 0.96081810781994603, 0.85563541881892147,
0.61570811548079107, 0.33076276040577052, 0.14655134838124245,
0.076853147122142126, 0.035831324928136087, 0.021344669212790181])
# set assume_sorted to have scipy automatically sort for you
f = interp1d(my_y_raw, my_x, assume_sorted = False)
xnew = f(0.5)
print('interpolated value is ', xnew)
plt.plot(my_x, my_y_raw,'x-', markersize=10)
plt.plot(xnew, 0.5, 'x', color = 'r', markersize=20)
plt.plot((0, xnew), (0.5,0.5), ':')
plt.grid(True)
plt.show()
which gives
interpolated value is 56.81214249272691
Using NumPy
Numpy also has an interp function, but it doesn't do the sort for you. And if you don't sort, you'll be sorry:
Does not check that the x-coordinate sequence xp is increasing. If xp
is not increasing, the results are nonsense.
The only way I could get np.interp to work was to shove the data in to a structured array.
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
my_x = np.array([4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,
48,50,52,54,56,58,60,62,64,66], dtype = np.float)
my_y_raw=np.array([0.99470977497817203, 0.99434995886145172,
0.98974611323163653, 0.961630837657524, 0.99327633558441175,
0.99338952769251909, 0.99428263292577534, 0.98690514212711611,
0.99111667721533181, 0.99149418924880861, 0.99133773062680464,
0.99143506380003499, 0.99151080464011454, 0.99268261743308517,
0.99289757252812316, 0.99100207861144063, 0.99157171773324027,
0.99112571824824358, 0.99031608691035722, 0.98978104266076905,
0.989782674787969, 0.98897835092187614, 0.98517540405423909,
0.98308943666187076, 0.96081810781994603, 0.85563541881892147,
0.61570811548079107, 0.33076276040577052, 0.14655134838124245,
0.076853147122142126, 0.035831324928136087, 0.021344669212790181],
dtype = np.float)
dt = np.dtype([('x', np.float), ('y', np.float)])
data = np.zeros( (len(my_x)), dtype = dt)
data['x'] = my_x
data['y'] = my_y_raw
data.sort(order = 'y') # sort data in place by y values
print('numpy interp gives ', np.interp(0.5, data['y'], data['x']))
which gives
numpy interp gives 56.81214249272691
As you said, your data looks like a flipped sigmoidal. Can we make the assumption that your function is a strictly decreasing function? If that is the case, we can try the following methods:
Remove all the points where the data is not strictly decreasing.For example, for your data that point will be near 0.
Use the binary search to find the location where y=0.5 should be put in.
Now you know two (x, y) pairs where your desired y=0.5 should lie.
You can use simple linear interpolation if (x, y) pairs are very close.
Otherwise, you can see what is the approximation of sigmoid near those pairs.
You might not need to fit any functions to your data. Simply find the following two elements:
The largest x for which y<50%
The smallest x for which y>50%
Then use interpolation and find the x*. Below is the code
my_x = np.array([4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,50,52,54,56,58,60,62,64,66])
my_y=np.array([0.99470977497817203, 0.99434995886145172, 0.98974611323163653, 0.961630837657524, 0.99327633558441175, 0.99338952769251909, 0.99428263292577534, 0.98690514212711611, 0.99111667721533181, 0.99149418924880861, 0.99133773062680464, 0.99143506380003499, 0.99151080464011454, 0.99268261743308517, 0.99289757252812316, 0.99100207861144063, 0.99157171773324027, 0.99112571824824358, 0.99031608691035722, 0.98978104266076905, 0.989782674787969, 0.98897835092187614, 0.98517540405423909, 0.98308943666187076, 0.96081810781994603, 0.85563541881892147, 0.61570811548079107, 0.33076276040577052, 0.14655134838124245, 0.076853147122142126, 0.035831324928136087, 0.021344669212790181])
tempInd1 = my_y<.5 # This will only work if the values are monotonic
x1 = my_x[tempInd1][0]
y1 = my_y[tempInd1][0]
x2 = my_x[~tempInd1][-1]
y2 = my_y[~tempInd1][-1]
scipy.interp(0.5, [y1, y2], [x1, x2])
I am new to python and matplotlib.
I am trying to highlight a few points that match a certain criteria in an already existing plot in matplotlib.
The code for the initial plot is as below:
pl.plot(t,y)
pl.title('Damped Sine Wave with %.1f Hz frequency' % f)
pl.xlabel('t (s)')
pl.ylabel('y')
pl.grid()
pl.show()
In the above plot I wanted to highlight some specific points which match the criteria abs(y)>0.5. The code coming up with the points is as below:
markers_on = [x for x in y if abs(x)>0.5]
I tried using the argument 'markevery', but it throws an error saying
'markevery' is iterable but not a valid form of numpy fancy indexing;
The code that was giving the error is as below:
pl.plot(t,y,'-gD',markevery = markers_on)
pl.title('Damped Sine Wave with %.1f Hz frequency' % f)
pl.xlabel('t (s)')
pl.ylabel('y')
pl.grid()
pl.show()
The markevery argument to the plotting function accepts different types of inputs. Depending on the input type, they are interpreted differently. Find a nice list of possibilities in this matplotlib example.
In the case where you have a condition for the markers to show, there are two options. Assuming t and y are numpy arrays and one has imported numpy as np,
Either specify a boolean array,
plt.plot(t,y,'-gD',markevery = np.where(y > 0.5, True, False))
or
an array of indices.
plt.plot(t,y,'-gD',markevery = np.arange(len(t))[y > 0.5])
Complete example
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np; np.random.seed(42)
t = np.linspace(0,3,14)
y = np.random.rand(len(t))
plt.plot(t,y,'-gD',markevery = np.where(y > 0.5, True, False))
# or
#plt.plot(t,y,'-gD',markevery = np.arange(len(t))[y > 0.5])
plt.xlabel('t (s)')
plt.ylabel('y')
plt.show()
resulting in
markevery uses boolean values to mark every point where a boolean is True
so instead of markers_on = [x for x in y if abs(x)>0.5]
you'd do markers_on = [abs(x)>0.5 for x in y] which will return a list of boolean values the same size of y, and every point where |x| > 0.5 you'd get True
Then you'd use your code as is:
pl.plot(t,y,'-gD',markevery = markers_on)
pl.title('Damped Sine Wave with %.1f Hz frequency' % f)
pl.xlabel('t (s)')
pl.ylabel('y')
pl.grid()
pl.show()
I know this question is old, but I found this solution while trying to do the top answer as I'm not familiar with numpy and it seemed to overcomplicate things
The markevery argument only takes indices of type None, integer or boolean arrays as input. Since I was passing the values directly it was throwing the error.
I know it is not very pythonic but I used the below code to come up with the indices.
marker_indices = []
for x in range(len(y)):
if abs(y[x]) > 0.5:
marker_indices.append(x)
I was having this issue because I was trying to mark some points that were out of the bounds of the data frame.
For example:
some_df.shape
-> (276, 9)
markers = [1000, 1080, 1120]
some_df.plot(
x='date',
y=['speed'],
figsize=(17, 7), title="Performance",
legend=True,
marker='o',
markersize=10,
markevery=markers,
)
-> ValueError: markevery=[1000, 1080, 1120] is iterable but not a valid numpy fancy index
Just make sure that the values you are giving as markers are within the bounds of the data frame you want to plot.