I'm having a couple of problems drawing a basic relational scatter plot. (Specifically, it's called a dot-dash-plot in the book I have and is described as "framing the bivariate scatter with the marginal distribution of each variable.") The idea is that you have a bivariate scatter plot and use the two marginal frequency distributions of the data as the two axes.
1. By setting the x and y tick length and using space characters as the tick labels I was able to get ticks only and no labels on the axes as I want. But these ticks appear along the top and right edges of the plot, as well as the left and bottom. Is there any way to get rid of the top and right ticks? 2. I'm getting phantom numbers on my axes, the 0.2, 0.4, 0.6 etc. I don't know where these are coming from or what they measure (my data ranges from 0-7 on both axes, not 0-1). 3. I want to label each data point with a string. I'm doing this with annotate but the strings sometimes overlap each other. Any idea how to avoid this? Here's a PNG of my plot as it is: http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/4015/scatterplotlk2.png And here's the source: # datax and datay are equal length lists of floats, the data I want to # plot. labels is another equal length list containing the strings I # want to label the data points with. All three lists are in the same # order. axes(frameon=False) rc('xtick.major',size=8) rc('xtick',direction='out') xticks(datax,' '*len(datax)) rc('ytick.major',size=8) rc('ytick',direction='out') yticks(datay,' '*len(datay)) plot(datax,datay,'r.') plot([0,7],[0,7]) xlabel('Proportion of total number of cards, week 1') ylabel('Proportion of total number of cards, week 2') title('Frequency of cards per function') for label,x,y in map(None,labels,datax,datay): annotate(function,xy=(x,y),size=8) Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
