Second y-axis and overlapping labeling? - python-3.x

Question

I am using python for a simple time-series analysis of calory intake. I am plotting the time series and the rolling mean/std over time. It looks like this:
Here is how I do it:
## packages & libraries
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
from pandas import Series, DataFrame, Panel
## import data and set time series structure
data = pd.read_csv('time_series_calories.csv', parse_dates={'dates': ['year','month','day']}, index_col=0)
## check ts for stationarity
from statsmodels.tsa.stattools import adfuller
def test_stationarity(timeseries):
#Determing rolling statistics
rolmean = pd.rolling_mean(timeseries, window=14)
rolstd = pd.rolling_std(timeseries, window=14)
#Plot rolling statistics:
orig = plt.plot(timeseries, color='blue',label='Original')
mean = plt.plot(rolmean, color='red', label='Rolling Mean')
std = plt.plot(rolstd, color='black', label = 'Rolling Std')
plt.legend(loc='best')
plt.title('Rolling Mean & Standard Deviation')
plt.show()
The plot doesn't look good - since the rolling std distorts the scale of variation and the x-axis labelling is screwed up. I have two question: (1) How can I plot the rolling std on a secony y-axis? (2) How can I fix the x-axis overlapping labeling?
EDIT
With your help I managed to get the following:
But do I get the legend sorted out?

Answer 1

1) Making a second (twin) axis can be done with ax2 = ax1.twinx(), see here for an example. Is this what you needed?
2) I believe there are several old answers to this question, i.e. here, here and here. According to the links provided, the easiest way is probably to use either plt.xticks(rotation=70) or plt.setp( ax.xaxis.get_majorticklabels(), rotation=70 ) or fig.autofmt_xdate().
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot([1, 2, 3, 4, 5], [1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
plt.xticks(rotation=70) # Either this
ax.set_xticks([1, 2, 3, 4, 5])
ax.set_xticklabels(['aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa','bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb','cccccccccccccccccc','ddddddddddddddddddd','eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee'])
# fig.autofmt_xdate() # or this
# plt.setp( ax.xaxis.get_majorticklabels(), rotation=70 ) # or this works
fig.tight_layout()
plt.show()
Answer to Edit
When sharing lines between different axes into one legend is to create some fake-plots into the axis you want to have the legend as:
ax1.plot(something, 'r--') # one plot into ax1
ax2.plot(something else, 'gx') # another into ax2
# create two empty plots into ax1
ax1.plot([][], 'r--', label='Line 1 from ax1') # empty fake-plot with same lines/markers as first line you want to put in legend
ax1.plot([][], 'gx', label='Line 2 from ax2') # empty fake-plot as line 2
ax1.legend()
In my silly example it is probably better to label the original plot in ax1, but I hope you get the idea. The important thing is to create the "legend-plots" with the same line and marker settings as the original plots. Note that the fake-plots will not be plotted since there is no data to plot.