This post is motivated by a comment on my blog post Line Charts Are Not Always the Best Way to Show Time Series. The comment by Meic Goodyear said, “A small point, but you could improve your Figure 2 ...

The X-axis, which is the horizontal axis, on most Excel charts does not use numeric intervals like the vertical Y-axis does. The X-axis contains either strings of text or a date under each set of data ...

Overview: Matplotlib mistakes often come from poor layout, unclear labels, and wrong scale choices, not from the data ...

This example illustrates various methods for specifying axis labels and other axis features for median and range charts. For further details, see "Labeling Axes". title 'Median and Range Charts for ...