[Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib - why scatter plot markers are stretched?

Thomas Caswell tcaswell at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 16:56:05 EDT 2018


What is the data type of the the index?

Can you give us a copy-pasteble example (if we change your example to fill
in the missing variables we may miss a key detail and not be able to
reproduce the issue).  Generating random data is usually a good approach
here.



On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 10:33 AM Gopi1616 <gopisiva1616 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was creating scatter plot using matplotlib with python2.7 script and it
> worked totally fine. I then upgraded my python script from python2.7 to 3.6
> now and the markers in the plot are stretched, not sure why this is
> happening. Please help me with this.
> <http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/file/t5171/comparison.png>
>
> Data:
>     table1.index   freq_table1['VarFreq']
>                    1    0.2
>                    2    0.4
>                    3    0.7
>                    4    1.0
>
> Code:
>         fig = plt.figure(figsize=(20,16))
>         ax1 = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
>         ax1.scatter(table1.index, table1['VarFreq'], color='r',
> label=VCF1_legend,
> marker="*")
>         ax1.scatter(table2.index, table2['VarFreq'], color='blue',
> label=VCF2_legend, marker="+")
>         plt.legend(loc='upper right')
>         ax1.set_title('VarFreq correlation, fontsize=20)
>         plt.savefig('WESPP_frequency_comparison.png', dpi=600 )
>
>
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